Alex Pagliuca

“Based on this review of the emotion socialization literature, I put forth the normative male alexithymia hypothesis (Levant, 1992; Levant & Williams, 2009), which stated that boys reared to conform to the masculinity norm1 of restrictive emotionality will likely become at least mildly alexithymic. Alexithymia is a clinical term that refers to an individual’s difficulty identifying and describing their emotional experiences. As previously noted, the term literally means “without words for emotions.”
― Ronald F. Levant, The Tough Standard: The Hard Truths About Masculinity and Violence

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“Indeed, the vast majority of unwed mothers younger than eighteen are indigent, and a substantial minority of their babies’ fathers are men who are at least six years their senior—which in most states legally defines the mothers as child sex-abuse victims.1 Yet teenage mothers usually call these men their boyfriends. And although their attempts to find fulfillment with older partners may in the long run fail, few would call themselves victims of sexual abuse. The lack of better words to describe their problematic experience with older men, and the young women’s own refusal to adopt victim identities, make them easy scapegoats for conservatives anxious to cast them not as innocent children but as sluts—and to justify cuts in welfare spending for them and their offspring.”
― Debbie Nathan, Satan's Silence