Scenarios
You help your neighbor take the groceries out of their car and in to their house.
What is a being a good man?
Poisonous
What is Toxic?
Men can strong in ways that aren't just physical
What is true?
You see you friend crying. He notices that you saw him and tries to hide it. You reassure him that it is okay to cry and to feel upset. You are this
What is a good man?
aggressive pressure or intimidation.
What is Harassment?
Toxic masculinity teaches young boys to be embarrassed about their emotions and hide them, or avoid communicating them - unless it’s anger.
What is True
Your friend, who starts to say things gross things about the girls he kissed is presenting this type of behavior.
What is Toxic Masculinity?
Any manner of conversation that polite society dictates be held privately - with small groups of like-minded, similarly gendered peers - due to its sexually charged language, situations or innuendos.
What is Locker Room Talk?
Fighting is a healthy way to express anger.
What is False?
You see a group of kids on the basketball team pushing a smaller kid in gym class. The smaller kids friends get involved and start calling the basket ball kids "soft" and "fairies." Both groups break out in to a fight. This is being presented.
What is Toxic Masculinity?
a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.
What is a Bully?
Men who adhere to traditionally masculine cultural norms, such as risk-taking, violence, dominance, primacy of work, need for emotional control, desire to win, and pursuit of social status are defined as "healthy" or "good" men.
What is False
A father who is emotionally supportive to his family can be defined as this
What is a good man?
Someone who cares about his family, someone who cares about themselves and others around him. He is someone who is capable of love, someone who will stick up for what is right even if others disagree.
What is a Man?
Pain, guilt, grief, fear, anxiety: these are not appropriate emotions for a boy because they will be unacceptable emotions for a man. Your feelings will become someone else’s problem – your mother’s problem, your girlfriend’s problem, your wife’s problem. If it has to come out at all, let it come out as anger. You’re allowed to be angry. It’s boyish and man-like to be angry.
What is False?