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Masculinity is the topic I chose and is what I am passionate about. I am really passionate about this topic because it effects almost every guy. When people think of masculinity I feel like people don't think of it effecting the male but that is wrong. When we are young we are told we will be in a fight and it's fine to fight. "If you get in a fight you better not lose", One I remember my dad saying a lot to me is "You better not hit first or you're going to be in big trouble" what does that mean to a 4 year old kid about to go into kindergarten for the first time? This meant I was going to get into a fight and I couldn't do anything unless I wanted to get hurt. When boys get hurt we get told to "man up" or "men don't cry" this can later on in life create problems about wanting to share their feelings. This brings me from violence to depression I know girls try to kill themselves more than men do but men have a higher success to fail ratio. This can be simply avoided by talking about your emotions but why are we going to do that if it hurts ego? This is why I want to help change how guys view themselves for crying or for talking about their emotions because it's an easy fix to a large problem. Compassion.
My Zine is on the last slide
I chose to make my zine look like this because on the front it looks great beautiful some might say. People don't always notice depression and other problems that are going on in a life of a guy because we cover up our problems because it's not manly to say you're being abused or you feel sad. This is why you can see it was ripped out of the magazine and glued on over darkness, darkness is the unknown, darkness normally represents sadness\ something scary because it's the unknown. On the sides you can read no were and no where this means there are no places for you in the past and no places to go. You can view No place even on the zine it just did not fit in kind of like the men who didn't feel like they would fit in after sharing their feelings to someone. When I created it was when I went on a field trip. I feel people who learn through visuals or like art can learn through this because it makes sense and I hope I am not the only person who thinks it makes sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=TPihPrNseAo
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/centreslist.php?area=london : This is one of the examples that men are not getting helped. They only help females when males can and are raped it saddens me to think a rape victim can not get the help they need because of their gender.
http://ncfm.org/get-help/services/ : This is one of the few groups that help males that need help
I chose to make my zine look like this because on the front it looks great beautiful some might say. People don't always notice depression and other problems that are going on in a life of a guy because we cover up our problems because it's not manly to say you're being abused or you feel sad. This is why you can see it was ripped out of the magazine and glued on over darkness, darkness is the unknown, darkness normally represents sadness\ something scary because it's the unknown. On the sides you can read no were and no where this means there are no places for you in the past and no places to go. You can view No place even on the zine it just did not fit in kind of like the men who didn't feel like they would fit in after sharing their feelings to someone. When I created it was when I went on a field trip. I feel people who learn through visuals or like art can learn through this because it makes sense and I hope I am not the only person who thinks it makes sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=TPihPrNseAo
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/centreslist.php?area=london : This is one of the examples that men are not getting helped. They only help females when males can and are raped it saddens me to think a rape victim can not get the help they need because of their gender.
http://ncfm.org/get-help/services/ : This is one of the few groups that help males that need help