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

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In this highly politicized society, the term “toxic masculinity” to some is just a liberal scheme to emasculate and blame men. One of the biggest life lessons I have from this program is that we have to form relationships rather than just audiences to form connections strong enough to affect change, and we need to go deep and address the mental models that people hold that perpetuate the events and patterns and trends that we traditionally cover. From being “brave” to consent to loving yourself — it’s all so important for the next generation of men to know. We need to actually change power dynamics, create space for opportunity and decentralize work as a way of building trust, yes, and also so that it is easier, more fluid and more sustainable.

Boys Will Be Human – HarperCollins

Justin touches on so many topics that are essential to the healthy biopsychosocial development of boys, that I think every adult who is nurturing, caring for, or raising a boy, should read it and own a copy that they can share with their child. He has been my roommate, fellow choir member, best person to converse with about anything and all around great person. We spent nine days together in Maui, stayed with some friends, and he went surfing for the first time, saw lava fields, and played in the ocean. White supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, are all systems of inequality to USE US and this planet for capital 🤦🏻‍♀️ Our lives are capital to be played with. Generally, if you don't know how to play it's because someone didn't play with you, and so you have a resistance to it; it's because you were never taught how.From those, Navi Singh said, “I would definitely participate again because there has to be a place for discussions like these. In doing so, they challenge their participants to think about how their definition of manhood is intertwined with trauma and gender roles. I talk about my first time and my own sexual assault, what happened to me, because it can happen to boys and I spent my entire life thinking that because I was a boy it doesn't happen to us.

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Systems of inequality rob us of basic humanity because we are all unconsciously fighting to get to the top of this tiny perceived hierarchy. Baldoni is also the founder and chairman of The Wayfarer Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming the way communities see and respond to people experiencing homelessness. One thing I didn't know when I started reading, and which certainly gives this book an element of difference from anything else like it, is that Baldoni, while speaking to a broad audience, frequently draws on his Baha'i faith.

He is the cofounder of Wayfarer Studios, an independent studio pioneering multi-platform film and television productions that speak to the human spirit. As a father, I'm learning that so much of parenting is healing the issues, the traumas, that happened to us when we were children.