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Analysis Of The Mask You Live In

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The struggles that young men and boy are going through the societal expectations of being a man will affect their life. According to Jennifer Siebel Newsom; the author of the documentary, The Mask You Live in, young males learn from their peers and their environment surrounding that “express compassion or empathy is to show weakness.” Well, in this enlightened 21st century, the pressure of being a man supposedly lesser, however, very little has changed.

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