Karamo Brown Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Growing up as a young man you're often told, 'You shouldn't cry,' and 'Emotions are weakness.' I think that's so damaging and I genuinely think that if we raised young boys better we wouldn't have such a need for feminism.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.

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

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but if you don't have a job or any prospects, you're going to be depressed, and it will be much worse if you can't express that. I hate the term because it's become a buzzword, but it's toxic masculinity.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

When you're a man you try and be macho.