Justin Baldoni spoke at a women's convention about toxic masculinity and the need for men to open up emotionally. Growing up, Baldoni felt pressure to conform to masculine stereotypes and repress his feelings, which left him feeling broken. On a boys' weekend with friends, Baldoni realized he wasn't alone in struggling with these issues. Through sharing personal stories and experiences, Baldoni's goal was to encourage men to listen to their emotions, be vulnerable with others, and treat all people with equal respect. He aimed to show women how they can help men become more emotionally open as well.
Justin Baldoni spoke at a women's convention about toxic masculinity and the need for men to open up emotionally. Growing up, Baldoni felt pressure to conform to masculine stereotypes and repress his feelings, which left him feeling broken. On a boys' weekend with friends, Baldoni realized he wasn't alone in struggling with these issues. Through sharing personal stories and experiences, Baldoni's goal was to encourage men to listen to their emotions, be vulnerable with others, and treat all people with equal respect. He aimed to show women how they can help men become more emotionally open as well.
Justin Baldoni spoke at a women's convention about toxic masculinity and the need for men to open up emotionally. Growing up, Baldoni felt pressure to conform to masculine stereotypes and repress his feelings, which left him feeling broken. On a boys' weekend with friends, Baldoni realized he wasn't alone in struggling with these issues. Through sharing personal stories and experiences, Baldoni's goal was to encourage men to listen to their emotions, be vulnerable with others, and treat all people with equal respect. He aimed to show women how they can help men become more emotionally open as well.
Justin Baldoni spoke at a women's convention about toxic masculinity and the need for men to open up emotionally. Growing up, Baldoni felt pressure to conform to masculine stereotypes and repress his feelings, which left him feeling broken. On a boys' weekend with friends, Baldoni realized he wasn't alone in struggling with these issues. Through sharing personal stories and experiences, Baldoni's goal was to encourage men to listen to their emotions, be vulnerable with others, and treat all people with equal respect. He aimed to show women how they can help men become more emotionally open as well.
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S SPEAKER: Justin Baldoni. He is an actor who grew up with a sensitive father. Who is the speaker/writer? “Spent his life resenting who he was by society”. Because he is an actor, What do we know about he plays many roles and was able to express how he knew there was them? What can you tell or what do you know about more to his feelings than the tough guy routine that he put on for the the speaker that helps you camera. understand the point of view expressed?
P PURPOSE: To tell men that they need to listen to their feelings, open up to other What is the speaker/writer people about how they really feel, treat others with a standardised hoping to accomplish? human respect. There was also the aspect of him performing at a What is the reason behind this piece? What do they women's convention where there were little to no men attending. This want the audience to do was to let women know that there are aspects and roles that they can after having listened? play in helping men open up.
A AUDIENCE: He is trying to reach men while informing women of his story. His Who is the speaker/writer audience is based on men, women, and parents. He knew that the trying to reach? How do we audience was not the complete range of people he was trying to reach, know? Do they indicate a but also knew that TED broadcasts it live as well as keeping them on specific audience? What assumptions exist in the youtube for many other people to see. text about the intended audience?
C CONTEXT: This is happening in our modern day, maybe a few years ago, when toxic What is the time and place masculinity was starting to gain ground in our culture. This is also when of this piece? What is Trump had just come into the presidency and had made his comments happening in the world as about “locker room talk” as referenced in his speech. Many things were it relates to the subject of the speech or the just starting to change in our country's dynamics. speaker/writer?
E EXIGENCE: Woke up one morning and realized that he felt broken by how society What was the spark or thought he should act. He felt trapped an unable to talk to his friends, so catalyst that moved the he took them out on a boys weekend so they could try to talk.. When speaker/writer to act/write? How did that they did talk he realized that he wasn't alone in how he felt. event impact the speaker/writer?
C CHOICES: Talking about personal experiences, talks about dad who was in the What are the rhetorical audience. Showed his demographics, uses metaphors. Compares gender choices that the roles and adds humor throughout. He gives it a very casual tone and speaker/writer makes in the speech? Think about talks very freely while still conveying his ideas clearly. He brings overall structure, devices, pictures of his friends and pictures of roles he has played showing that diction, syntax, etc. anyone can truly express themselves.. A APPEALS: Ethos: talks about his emotions and how he felt in situations. Which of the three Big appeal to emotions. rhetorical appeals (ethos, Not much LOGOS, but does talk about statistics logos, pathos) are present in the text? Where? Why?
T TONE: Trying to unite, sensitive, call to action. He goes straight for the heart of What is the the topic and blows past the formalities of trying to ease into it. His speaker/authors attitude personal stories give a positive outlook and a light of hope for those who toward the subject? Is the tone the same throughout didn't believe in it. He uses his dad as a great example of how we should the whole piece? Where behave and treat others, him talking about how he looked down on his does it shift? What dad for being “sensitive” and now bringing up how he believes that's evidence is there to how all men should act. be willing to put our emotions first and actually demonstrate the tone? give a crap about ourselves instead of just letting the world run its course and us trying to bend to it..
Afterword from me I always looked at toxic masculinity as something that was meant to degrade men . I am glad that you brought this up in our class. I have a family (of friends, because I am an only child. My siblings growing up were my friends like J.TLanie, and a few other people you might know that went to hillcrest, but they all were with me at my old school growing up) . We have open meetings almost twice a month just talking about our feelings, catching up, and opening up about the hardest parts in our lives at that time. With my close friends at hillcrest we do what we call 332. 332 is 3 good things about our day, 3 bad things about our day, and 2 things we would have done differently if we had the chance. We are open about things all the way down to our medical and deep parts of our relationships. I had never had a word for what we were trying to do but I guess this is what it was trying to combat. Although I disagree with the naming of toxic masculinity because the movement sounds like it is saying masculinity in general is toxic.
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