This is also echoed in the film as it speaks on bullying of children who are “different”. At first it was described as something that girls and “sissies” did, and later, it was something that was “gay”- all of which were things that as a boy, you did not want to be labelled as. Likewise, as was reflected in the film narrative, I learned that men never cry or show emotion or empathy. Whether it was joining a sports team when I was not at all athletic or into sports bullying certain kids who were “lower” on the school social hierarchy smoking weed and hanging out with guys I didn’t really trust or distancing myself from friends who were not part of the “cool crowd”- I did all kinds of things and compromised my integrity in many ways for the sole purpose of being “accepted” by one group of guys or another. The idea of feeling the need to “perform” to put on some kind of act, in order to be accepted by one male peer group or another is something that strongly resonated with my schooling experience.
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“ School was a training ground for me to learn how to perform masculinity to perform to be one of the guys.” One of the characters, a former athlete-turned-thespian named Ian, describes this process: We are given the stories and narratives of a handful of young men who speak about how they were taught as children what they needed to do to “fit in” with various male peer groups throughout their years in elementary school, and then high school. One of the primary focuses of the film has to do with how boys are taught from very early on that they need to disconnect from our emotions and that any emotion other than anger is not “manly”. NFL Logo Copyright the National Football League He then tells how he spent the rest of his life attempting to prove to his father that he was just that. The film opens with former NFL player and football coach, Joe Ehrmann reflecting on a memory of him being five years old and his father bringing him into the basement to teach him how to fight, telling him he could not cry and he had to “ be a man”.
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As these are both groups that I have a great deal of respect for, I decided to check out the movie for myself. I had heard about the film for a little while and knew it had mixed reviews, with the guys over at The ManKind Project giving it a “thumbs up”, while the guys over at The Pressure Project gave it a “thumbs down”. Her latest film “ The Mask You Live In”, is billed as being about “ the struggle men and boys have while negotiating American society’s narrow definition of masculinity”. Newsom is also the creator of the film “ Miss Representation”, which examines how the media have supposedly contributed to the under-representation of women in positions of power. I recently sat down and watched the documentary “ The Mask You Live In”- a film that was written and directed by filmmaker and actress Jennifer Siebel Newsom ( who also happens to be the wife of the Lieutenant Governor of California). Photo copyright Jennifer Newsom and The Representation Project Ending quote from “The Mask You Live In”.And each of us can do our part in expanding what it means to be a man for ourselves and the boys in our lives.”
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