"The Improvisatore," upon which, next to "The Wonder-Tales," his fame rests, is a kind of disguised autobiography which exhibits the author's morbid sensibility and what I should call the unmasculine character of his mind, [19] To appeal to the reader's pity in your hero's behalf is a daring experiment, and it cannot, except in brief scenes, be successful. ❋ Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1871)
It is worth noting that a large number of Tuominen's prototypes were men: mostly unusual, 'unmasculine' men like Kafka, Proust, Rilke or Hölderlin. ❋ David McDuff (2010)
It was, LeVay acknowledges, the perfect Freudian recipe for homosexuality-only he was convinced Freud had cause and effect backward: hostile fathers didn't make sons gay; fathers turned hostile because the sons were "unmasculine" to begin with. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They found that the organization of sports stifled the inherent joy of the athletic experience, encouraged violence, hatred for the opposition and sexism, and discouraged intellectual and creative pursuits which were deemed "unmasculine" and antagonistic to their development as athletes. ❋ Foner, Eric (1977)
Some of these “conservative” gay bashers should be fitted for bras, given their own very unmasculine bodies and pendulous he-boobies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In Western cultures, men are often denied their own expression of beauty because it is perceived as unmasculine. ❋ Tami Lynn Kent (2011)
According to Eshun: "He's managed to stretch the aesthetic bounds of hip-hop by bringing in some of that unmasculine high fashion." ❋ Elizabeth Day (2010)
"Teddy, whose relentlessly logical patter utterly fulfills his observation that 'I lack the internal editing function most people take for granted,' is the anti-Spenser - unmasculine, weak, klutzy and hilariously garrulous." ❋ Unknown (2010)
When Bush's campaign operatives tarnished Al Gore and then John Kerry as inauthentic, this was code for unmasculine and weak, characterizations that, unfortunately, got some traction in both cases. ❋ Aaron Belkin (2012)
Pollack said many fathers are torn over gender-role issues, supporting the concept of less rigid stereotypes yet worried that their sons might be ostracized if they partake in activities viewed by their peers as unmasculine: We still socialize boys to follow their more aggressive side rather than their more thoughtful and caring side. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He's more of a threat than they realize, and their undervaluing him owing simply to his being gay and unmasculine is a classic error. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even in the late twentieth century, when “real men” did not eat quiche, eating vegetables was mocked as being “unmasculine.” ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)
For some strange reason, he does not seem in any way unmasculine though... ❋ Kludge (2010)
I believe it's called Snow Machine in Alaska - mobile is just so unmasculine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Intellectual achievement was seen to be unmasculine, prompting Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge to counsel boys to "avoid books, and in fact avoid all artificial learning, for the forefathers put America on the right path by learning completely from natural experience." ❋ Unknown (2009)
