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"Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then."
"Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy."
"Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance."
"Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations."
"Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it."
"Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent."
"Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them"
"I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it."
"I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change."
"Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men."
"I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters."
"I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century."
"Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed."
"My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association."
"He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes?"
"The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him."
"Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty."
"Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance."
"The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males."
"Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s."
