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Danni Colello
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou
my blog will show you the mind of a young developing writer.
For this blog post I will be reviewing/ discussing the documentary, "The Mask You Live In". Which is about the struggles boys are faced with on a daily basis and it is no talked about enough in my opinion. While watching the documentary with a friend (male) it got to a part where they discussed the amount of abuse and bullying happens to boys on sports teams either by other teammates or by coaches, and I asked my friend if he had ever had to deal with that (knowing he had a sports background) and he said, “Actually yea I did get bullied in baseball, but I’ve never really talked about it.” And it hit me that this is a very big, real issue in our society.
This film makes me feel like almost all boys in America don’t get to really grow up exploring who they truly are. It makes me feel bad and also angry because we need leaders to guide these boys and show them that it is okay to be different and to show a side of them that isn’t the social norm of “masculine”. I feel empathy for the boys because I truly did not know this is what they had to deal with growing up. This film makes me think that the message boys have to live with and grow up with is so disgusting, why do they have to show only the side of them that is considered tough. Why sincerely is it not seen as socially acceptable for a man to be emotional or like something that isn’t race cars and sports. In my opinion its completely ignorant for people, and parents to build these walls of what their child is “supposed” to be like. Guess what almost nothing in life happens the way we want it to, all we have power over is our reaction. You could either reject your/a child for not fitting into the idea you’ve build for them or you could be an open-minded person and try to learn and grow. If you reject things in life out of fear you will never grow as a person, its okay to have your ideals be challenged. Question everything. This film makes me want to do something for these boys. I want to help them so badly, to encourage them to war that pink shirt or go out for the school play. You know I wanted to be an elementary school teacher for my entire childhood. Now although this isn’t what I want to do anymore, this film (as well as miss representation) has made me seriously remember why I wanted to do it all those years. To be a caring person in children’s lives that can teach them things very few educators actually are able to. To believe in themselves and love themselves. And that bad things are going to happen but that doesn’t mean you have to give in to the bad things happening around you and to you. I feel like the world doesn’t need more “educators” it needs healers, of all sorts.
7 Comments
Zahed I.
4/1/2019 06:49:34 pm
Hey Danniiiiiiii,
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Danni
4/4/2019 02:57:18 pm
Thanks Zahed!!
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Franics
4/1/2019 08:36:48 pm
I agree with you DAN and like this part most " I feel like the world doesn’t need more “educators” it needs healers, of all sorts".
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Danni
4/4/2019 02:57:58 pm
Thank you Francis!!
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Sabatino
4/3/2019 06:21:26 pm
I echo the comments made here. I notice you use an opening scene as an entry into your discussion about the film. I appreciated how the scene grounds the film’s argument in your friend’s lived experience—and how his story “put a face” to the phenomenon violent masculinity.
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Danni
4/4/2019 03:02:17 pm
thanks for the feed back!
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Francis
4/4/2019 06:49:57 am
Do the world need more educators to improve the well being of our community?
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