Stephen Marche Quotes

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• We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.

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  World, Contradiction, Novel

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• The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.

  Stephen Marche

  Wilderness

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

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  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

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  Suicide, Attitude, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

  Stephen Marche

  Art, Cities, Mainstream Culture

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• In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, America, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'

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  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

  Stephen Marche

  Fall, Men, Reality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.

  Stephen Marche

  Hate, Real, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.

  Stephen Marche

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

  Stephen Marche

  Book, Being Lied, Lied

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual acts become so easy, their intimacy declines and their meaning declines.

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  Sex, Kissing, Intimacy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.

  Stephen Marche

  Simple, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.

  Stephen Marche

  Arabia, Body, Commodity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Sex, Firsts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.

  Stephen Marche

  White, Wife, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Confusion, Losing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Caregivers, Birth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Kings, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and the proper relationship between a man and his children.

  Stephen Marche

  Children, Father, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

  Stephen Marche

  Dream, Home, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Reality, Stupidity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

  Stephen Marche

  Jobs, Men, Nurse

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Iconography, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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