7 Quotes by Grayson Perry about masculinity
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Men's rightsThe right to be vulnerableThe right to be weakThe right to be wrongThe right to be intuitiveThe right not to knowThe right to be uncertainThe right to be flexibleThe right not to be ashamed by any of these
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I think all men have this instinct to retreat into oneself to a greater or lesser degree. It is the self-sufficient hero or the lonely suicide.
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Feminists and civil rights campaigners made white men visible in ways they'd never been before. They started to give the default dominant group equal 'otherness', and white men didn't like it. This feeling of visibility prompted men to adopt a victim status befitting an oppressed group. The patriarchy felt itself wobble and fall a notch nearer equality, but screamed as if it had fallen way below the groups it still oppressed.
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I grew up with David Bowie, the patron saint of the boy in his bedroom who felt alienated by the male culture of his peers.
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Many aspects of masculinity seem such a blight on society that to say it is 'in crisis' is like saying racism was 'in crisis' in civil-rights-era America.
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Fulfilment of masculinity is often sold on the strength of peak experiences: winning battles, pulling women, pure adrenaline, moments of ecstasy. But life ain’t like that. We rarely, if ever, take our car (masculinity) on to a racetrack, so maybe we need a version that works doing the everyday things. We need a masculinity that’s easy to park, with a big boot, child seats and low fuel consumption. Men need to learn to equip themselves for peace.
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Masculinity is mainly a construct of conditioned feelings around people with penises.
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