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21 " The huge veins on his neck throb with the exertion and rush of it all and his whole body flexes and pumps like one enormous, grotesque organ. "
― Mark Simpson , Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity
22 " The breathtaking gall, and the astonishing achievement, of films like Commando is that men's bodybuilding – the obsessive interest of men in men's bodies – and the appropriation of gay macho drag by heterosexual men became both a reassertion of the masculine body's 'natural' superiority over the female and a disavowal of homosexuality. "
23 " The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies. "
24 " Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms.” Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol "
― Mark Simpson , End of Gays? (Kindle Single)
25 " Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey. "
― Mark Simpson , Saint Morrissey
26 " every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite. "