It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be r...eady for anybody who asks her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the things ... sound like things our grandmothers would have told us: "Men will be boys. We let them play their little gam...es with each other. We know it isn't about the important things, but they think so. So we let them. We take care of them so that they can go on playing...." What grandma did not tell us is that men are capable of something altogether different.... But even though men are untapped wells of potential, they will not move forward if women continue to subsidize the status quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observ...able fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing so...ciety for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses,... the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and ...of the race of giants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among t...he Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been r...eared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »