Sam Fender Quotes

It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.

You know, men are very tough and they don't want to ever say that they need a break or that they are in pain.

In today's society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you're not allowed to show weakness. That's just so false.

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

I'm not a bro.

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.