One aspect that caught my attention was when they addressed the fact that when coaches try to motivate or strengthen their players’ mental when they’re not performing so well that they would say, for example, “stop being a pussy and man up” or “you throw like a girl”. This caught my attention, because it was pretty much true. It wasn’t something that was new to me. And when they started to explain that these were insults that were demeaning to women, I started to realize that too, that they were giving them the idea that acting like a girl is bad, that being emotional and sensitive is bad which could lead them to isolation in their toughest moments because they don’t want to show emotion or what their coaches would call “weakness”. That could lead them to thinking that they can’t reach out to anybody whenever they’re dealing with something.

Another aspect of the video that caught my attention was when parenting was addressed. I never really questioned modern day parenting where girls were raised in a pink room with dolls and boys were raised in a blue room with toy cars, but now I see that all of that is to shape how the boy and the girl should act and be like. I agree with the experts that say that we shouldn’t impose anything to young kids at such a young age. For example(for boys), that pink is for girls or that crying is for girls only, because that is nonsense that is being carved into their thinking and will stick as they grow up. This is one of the reasons that boys tend to bottle up their emotions.

In p.82, the part where Gomez starts to talk about how society’s definition of masculinity is to be strong, stoic, brave or powerful was clearer to me after having watched the documentary. I now understand what he meant when he says that by oppressing women and gays, ultimately, we’re also oppressing ourselves, because it’s true that most men these days try avoiding doing even the simplest way of showing affection to other men which is a hug and now I understand more why that is.