Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming the Strongest, Kindest, Bravest Person You Can Be

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Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming the Strongest, Kindest, Bravest Person You Can Be

Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming the Strongest, Kindest, Bravest Person You Can Be

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We criminalize the poor. Distance ourselves from them by subconsciously dehumanizing them. Telling ourselves they must deserve it, the system works and it could never be us. That’s our privilege. Are they hungry? People in our own communities. Hidden, forgotten, shamed… for being poor… This is just a bigger picture of what this book preaches. Sometimes it’s children in our own communities. What do we say about them? These are real people. We could be them at any moment. I will probably be one of them when my kids are grown because I will never stop fighting this inhumane system. One thing that came up in multiple group discussions what that a truly masculine man is forever working on himself and it is fine to be emotional. In their individual survey answers, many of them said they left the conversation feeling that they should open up to someone close to them about their feelings more often — and that doing so could better their well being.

Boys will be. Who they are. Whole. Human. Smart - Medium Boys will be. Who they are. Whole. Human. Smart - Medium

From filmmaker, actor, and author Justin Baldoni comes a real-talk, self-esteem-building guidebook that helps boys ages 11 and up embrace their feelings and fears instead of repress them. One metric that signals that success is the way that they are getting together and gathering even without me or any prompting from me, and also exhibited in the group discussion I am hosting this week even after graduation because members of my community have asked for it. I also found that the early connections and the care and consistency that I demonstrated translated into trust that I built over time that made it possible for me to have the group discussions that I had to produce the video series and other photo and written content I produced at all. In partnership with the community members — boys and men who are not usually given time and space and a voice in the media landscape — I noticed a gap that exists and so I created a service and a way to keep engaging boys and keeping them accountable to each other. Metrics & OutcomesBe prepared: This book is raw and surprising. There is no subject off-limits or lies detected. Sometimes things might get a little uncomfortable, but that’s an important part of getting to know—and believe in—yourself. Through conversation both in-person and online, my community and I will help promote a version of masculinity that is less rigid and more inclusive of everyone who intersects with it. Each discussion had 5 to 8 participants so everyone had the opportunity to speak and to be heard with me as the facilitator. In doing that I learned just how important it is to listen empathetically and to be willing to share as much as you ask others to share. Liz Plank went around the country interviewing men for her book and she avoided using the phrase “toxic masculinity,” which I also took to doing. When Plank asked men what was hard about being a man, the most common answer she got was other men. Most of the men Plank spoke to had never talked about these problems with other men in their lives. “That’s not to say women don’t reinforce these patriarchal notions of masculinity and have absorbed them as well,” she wrote. Throughout the book she articulated how intersectional this issue of masculinity is, and promoted something called a “gender reset for boys,” in which we teach them how to create healthy emotional habits and to be aware of one’s internal dialogue and behavior. She coined the term “mindful masculinity.”

Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming

Have you ever noticed that there are unwritten rules that tell boys how to act, think, and feel Nobody knows where they came from, but one day—BAM!—you suddenly feel these invisible forces, pushing you to follow the rules of masculinity, even if they don’t make you happy. I went searching for online spaces in which boys and men were convening on their own around healthy masculinity, but what I found were toxic spaces where men were convening on platforms like 4Chan, Reddit and Twitch where users can use strong, hurtful language while remaining anonymous. Now tell me I don’t sound like an actual insane person. Would you believe I’m quite educated? Would you believe I look normal and act normal in society? Would you believe i put on my mask like everyone else and go and function in the real world with a smile on my face for my children? Would you believe I’m just like you? Another hurt victim of this terrible system with a good heart and belief in humanity. Really makes you think…doesn’t it. Really makes me want to read Marx and get into my community ❤️✌️

The system always looms over us to keep us in line. Teaches us we are competition. Teaches us it’s just human nature. It teachers us we have to fight to eat instead of how to make enough to feed each other. There is enough when the wealth gets redistributed. There is PLENTY when we are not being used and extorted. When we are all getting the things we really need instead of the things these companies want to sell us to prove we’re better than or more deserving of comfort or perceived luxury when there are billions of dollars waisted daily by the bourgeoisie. To keep us all ignorant and filling the voids we all naturally get from EACH OTHER. Justin Baldoni, American actor, filmmaker and podcaster, whose 2017 TED Talk on ‘what it means to be man enough’ went viral, has written a chatty, kind, honest guide to being a boy. Covering topics like being brave, being smart, being cool, as well as sex, puberty, bullying and being bullied, body image and love, this is essential reading for 10+. There is more than enough on the planet to sustain us. If we stop playing monopoly. Did you know monopoly was created by a woman with two versions? One showing how capitalism takes and destroys and one version showing how it would work if we all work for each other, with each other, turn towards each other. A Marxist version. Guess what capitalism did to her game? Scott Rudin - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior-4161883/

Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming

Highly designed and filled with activities, sidebars, and inspirational quotes, this book is the perfect social-emotional learning tool for parents and educators to jump-start conversations about masculinity with the boys in their lives. By engaging a group of men, and then sharing the content of our convo, I will be able to reach a lot of men and encourage conversation and accountability among them. Even though I didn’t find any groups where men, especially young men, were self-gathering around this specific issue, I did find groups and organizations working to support boys and men and at least starting to have these conversations. Make It Happen, for example, serves young men of color between the ages of 16 and 24 who have been negatively impacted by community violence. More on them later.

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The name of my project comes from a very well-known phrase: boys will be boys. Michael Kimmel, an American sociologist and leading researcher and writer on men and masculinity, in 2012 asked, “Why don’t we say ‘boys will be boys’ when a man wins the Nobel Peace Prize?” And he asks a fair question. The phrase “boys will be boys” is often used to excuse problematic behavior rather than to celebrate the successes of men and boys. Next on the reading list is The Little #MeToo Book for Men by Mr. Mark Greene, which has been called “nothing short of a blueprint for men’s liberation,” by the Caroline Heldman, executive director at The Representation Project. Additionally, I will read She Said, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times. I cannot wait to read the untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement. That is when I found P.S. 292, specifically the after school program put on by Good Shepherd Services. I first connected with the director and assistant director there and showed up consistently without a pen and paper, without an agenda, to get to know the boys in the program. I later connected with the high school students in the same building as the middle school I had developed a relationship with. I invited some of the youth development coordinators for the after school program to come to a group discussion with the 20–28-year-old group, and I did another social experiment type thing in Downtown Brooklyn where I recruited some of the 20–24-year-old men for my group discussion. I wonder if Justin Baldoni knows he’s a Marxist 🥰☮️✌️ The next generation of boys may still be dealing with the generations of mistreatment of women…I guess we’re watching systemic trauma play out live with our own sons… Patriarchy really does hurt all of us. From filmmaker, actor, and author Justin Baldoni comes a real-talk, self-esteem-building guidebook that helps boys ages 11 and up embrace their feelings and fears instead of repress them.



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