What About Men? Quotes

“El porno no es algo que se pueda coger y dejar a voluntad. La imaginación sexual es como la madreselva: crece alrededor de todo aquello a lo que puede aferrarse”
― Caitlin Moran, ¿Y los hombres qué?

“I couldn’t think of any book, play, TV show, or movie that basically tells the story of how boy-children become men. What “being a man” is, in its ostensibly mundane but actually momentous detail: how to shed your child-body and become an adult; how to negotiate the white-water rapids of sexual desire; how to self-soothe your sadness and anger; how to cope with defeat and loss; how to be a father; how to love; how to age. How to understand how and why the world responds to you, simply because you are a boy, or a man. How to gain the kind of confidence and happiness that not only make you confident and happy, but everyone that you love, too. In short, how to be a well-adjusted, average,”
― Caitlin Moran, What About Men?: A Feminist Answers the Question – A Provocative Debate on Masculinity and Gender

“Pero también te permite conocer un aspecto interesante de la psicología sexual de las mujeres heterosexuales: un fenómeno que yo llamo «la polla de Schrödinger». Cuando una mujer te ama, sus ojos, su cerebro y su coño añaden al menos cinco centímetros a tu polla. Le dice a todo quisque que tienes a Moby Dick en el pantalón.

Pero cuando una mujer te odia, sus ojos, su cerebro y su coño te quitan cinco centímetros, como mínimo, a tu herramienta. Si tienes una relación intermitente, para tu pareja tu pene será, simultáneamente gigantesco y diminuto, dependiendo de cómo se sienta en ese momento y del día que sea.”
― Caitlin Moran, ¿Y los hombres qué?

“Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is undoubtedly good advice, as it was when psychotherapist Carl Rogers originally came up with the method in 1951. Similarly, Peterson is good on how the basis of society is sharing and delayed gratification, how a person is defined by the ideas that they have, and how it’s a good idea to both make your bed every morning and stop and pet a cat in the street. The first of these observations is from Freud, the second by Jung and then Popper, and the last two can be found on either Instagram or TikTok anytime you want to look, and often presented as an amusing lip-synch rather than as a densely-typed, Bible-quoting rant.”
― Caitlin Moran, What About Men?