Olympic gold Quote by The Guardian

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural…

— Jackson Katz

“Indeed, I propose the idea that confusing strength with masculinity is in truth not a feminist ideal, but a misogynistic idea. He is no…

— John C. Wright

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating -…

— Alice Dreger

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong…

— Rebecca Lobo

“He had the polite yet aggressive air of a man who enjoys competitive racket sports.”

— Hari Kunzru

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“men needed to explain the basics to him. A How to Deal with Women summit. Nothing would bond the races faster.”

— Danielle Monsch

“Hence, the policing of the female athlete, who faces the daunting task of maintaining a body strong enough to excel at her sport of…

— Anne Helen Petersen

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

There's two extremes in male sport: there's complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge problems at…

— Ellyse Perry

“The propensity to dwell on failure and mistakes, and an inability to shut out the outside world are, in his mind, the biggest psychological…

— Katty Kay

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it…

— Robin Green