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“When it croaked out of my mouth, I meant it as statement of fact, but looking back, it sounded perfectly weird, ambiguous, and off-putting, so it was just the right thing.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Do you think it’s too feminine to like flowers?” I ask Tristan, for no real reason. “On the contrary,” he replies. “Being able to recognize the true beauty of things is the mark of a real man.”
― Jeanne Roland, Journeys

“I haven’t even been a boy for an entire day, and I’m already just like them: brawling and taking women for granted.”
― Jeanne Roland, Journeys

“Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, far more complicated. Later surveys and studies would suggest that Millennial men as a whole turned out to be as “traditional,” and even less egalitarian, in their attitudes towards gender as their fathers—which made experts eventually posit that growing up with fathers impacted by gender masculinity crisis made them more, not less, resistant to gender equality.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man