Some great links

The chain of anger

This one really resonated.

The Mask You Live In  

A great introduction to many of the issues that we need to be discussing.
The Mask You Live In documentary is available on Netflix.

This is an American production but the issues are global so worth taking a look at no matter where you are, especially if you or your kids are involved in organised sport.

 

10 Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up’

At some time, in some way we have all been told to man-up, grow a pair, or toughen the fuck up …

We Are Man Enough

This is a great site created by actor Justin Baldoni (Jane the Virgin).

Let’s hold ourselves and each other accountable to consciously taking part in this conversation, listening even when it gets uncomfortable, and making real changes in our lives to be better men tomorrow than we are today.  You are Man Enough.

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The Inspiration

In 1991 I was called to the Ministry of Health. They wanted to brief me on a piece of work to do with the National Cervical Screening Campaign, about to be launched in New Zealand for the first time.

In a startling revelation, the woman with whom I was meeting for the first time, said “we know that more men die each year from prostate cancer than women die from cervical cancer.  Yet, we chose to do this (the National Cervical Screening Campaign) because we know that men are less likely to make a fuss.”

Around 27 years later, here in New Zealand 50 women die each year from cervical cancer. Way too many.

600 men die of prostate cancer in New Zealand each year and we don’t make a fuss.

We are men. We have the scars to prove it.

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