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Siebel Newsom (who is married to California Lt. For example: “Every day three or more boys commit suicide.” Is that national or global? Over what time span was that number drawn?

Title cards present a wealth of statistics, but without citations some of the more specious-sounding data only raise questions about the validity of the movie’s assertions. Some of the more compelling, activity-driven footage deals with the teaching work of Ashanti Branch, an educator who founded an Oakland, Calif.-based youth-advocacy group.

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The movie looks at stereotypes surrounding athletic and financial success psychologist Madeline Levine says she’s seen 8-year-old boys who say they want to become venture capitalists. Thompson says that if you gave the same psychological tests to girls and boys, the responses would overlap by 90% - indicating that the sexes have much more in common than not. With bell-curve graphs illustrated onscreen, psychologist Michael G. Many points are reinforced with television and film clips (including one from “Whiplash” - it’s here already). The film effectively highlights the unexamined implications of the language associated with maleness (“man up” or “be a man”).

Political scientist Caroline Heldman says that the idea of masculinity is tied up with a “rejection of everything that is feminine.” These expectations take root early: Sociologist Michael Kimmel says that a sure way to get boys fighting on an American playground is to call someone a sissy. The movie’s title takes its cue from a George Orwell quotation on the actions presumed of an imperialist: “He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.” The pic opens with former NFL defensive lineman (and now motivational speaker) Joe Ehrmann discussing how playing football was his way of showing off the “hypermasculinity” he felt obligated to demonstrate. Educational venues represent the most likely future for what is basically an outreach doc, although some of the points made cry out for sharpening or elaboration. Thought-provoking ideas about the ill psychological and sociological effects produced by expectations of “masculinity” are undermined by rambling and at times glib argumentation in “The Mask You Live In,” director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s follow-up to “Miss Representation,” which examined sexism directed toward women.

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