"Michael Scott Kimmel" is an American Sociology/sociologist, specializing in gender studies. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Stony Brook University in New York and is the founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a spokesperson of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and a longtime feminist. In 2013 he founded the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, where he is Executive Director.

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You need to put this in the context of all the other things we think of as disfiguring that people do because they think they'll be more attractive.

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I don't think the stakes were so high and I don't think sexuality was so overt.

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[He admits he's being facetious. Sort of.] But all my analysis tells me men control the terms of the discussion, ... Men control dating arrangements.

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You think women's liberation and feminism entitles you to be sexual? Sure! Fine! But you still have to get us and make us the center of your universe. I ask you one question. Which gender do you think invented the thong?

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To be grown up is to be settled, comfortable, stable, responsible, and secure. Those are bad conditions for advertising, which depends on our sense of insecurity, anxiety, and incompleteness.

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