Patti Stanger Quotes

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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 grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I hate female men.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

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

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

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

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.