How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"It was all that namby-pamby stuff… All that 'Thomas my little bunny rabbit' stuff she used to say to him all the time." (3.122)
Ray believes that Ma's feminine affection toward Thomas makes him soft. Maybe if she whacked him upside the head now and then (Ray's method of parenting), Thomas would be tougher.
Quote #2
It's part of the con down there, see? Guys are supposed to fantasize about the instructors. It's good for business. (7.6)
The health club where Joy works capitalizes on the masculine tendency to think with… something other than their brain.
Quote #3
No wife of his was going to clean toilets for strangers. (8.11)
Ray subscribes to the 1950s rules of being a husband, like that a man is less of a man if his wife has to work. It's not because he doesn't want his wife to have to work a tough job, it's that others will see Ray as less of a man if he can't provide for his family on his own.