Tibor Fischer Quotes

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

No man wants to lose to a woman.

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I hate female men.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Men are irrelevant.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.