41 Quotes About Machismo

Se tu non fossi scappata, se tu fossi rimasta con me...loro sarebbero ancora vivi".(Maksim-La mia vendetta con te @Giovanna Roma)

I didn’t invent this twisted system that pits us against each other and makes us do crappy things for status—but I do know how to play it.

Sundance: [to Etta] What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.Butch: Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.

Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

In reality, Eduardo hoped the mask would make him appear vulnerable and self conscious, like a wounded animal these stupid women would fight each other over to mend.

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi.Leo: Rainbows, ponies...Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

You wonder why he cleared out tonight, do you? Do you? I'll tell you why. I can tell you. You don't know, do you? You don't know - do you? No, that's right. But Mr. Shaw does. Mr. Shaw knows. He's out tonight so he can be amongst men. Men. That's why. Yes. That's why. You didn't know that, did you? You're too stupid, to know he's sick in his guts of being in a house full of women. Christ! They're not fit - they're not fit for me to vomit on. That's why. You're just - things.

Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.