Masculinities

“Showing emotion is a really big [thing? check audio?] that’s frowned upon, so like crying or, yeah sharing things” Name, 16, Maori/Pakeha
“You’re expected to be, as a guy, uh more tough … you’re not really meant to be sensitive, and if you’re sensitive people kind of look at you and go, what are you doing?” – speaker unknown (AGS?)


“Even I’ve said to someone oh just harden up… Like if you have the worst injury known to man they say oh just harden up take a concrete pill” – unknown source and speaker

“Like um when I was little um I always found sport as like um, like not fun. So I usually hanged around with like the like girls ’cause they were just chill read books and everything and I’m like oh sweet. … the basic ideas is [guys] will go like “you’re a f*ggot” ’cause you’re chilling with girls you come play rugby with the boys” – Name, 18, Samoan
“I was getting mocked and ’cause I watch Riverdale and like shows like that…I like watching like love movies and stuff like that and but everyone thought I was gay. These guys were calling me gay eh.” – Name, 18, NZ Chinese/Samoan


“Crying is like taken as a weakness. So like the idea to be a man is to not cry, just get over it. That’s what I was taught I don’t like it though. I want to cry (laughing) Nah yeah but like whenever I cry in front of my family they’re always like be a man, man up, don’t cry.” – Name, 18, Samoan