Masculinity Reflection

In my creative assignment, I decide to do a video about my family’s personal experiences on masculinity. The video consist of three interviews with a different perspectives on masculinity. As a class, we hear other prospective about different masculinities from class to race and gender to sexual identity. I think for me I wanted give an older generation’s perspective. Most of my close family members are in their 50s and I wanted to give more of a different personal mindset on masculinities in the class, since the students age ranges in the 20s. I also wanted to get a more personal and raw statement about masculinity, by using stories from their own mouths. I did not want my family members to give a lecture on what they know or think about masculinity because we as a class have lectures every week. I wanted their personal experiences because hearing a person’s story speaks more volume than any other lecture. I wanted to give a class a feel and thought about those personal experiences. The first interview was my mother, she talked about her experience as a group teacher in a day care center. My mother has been a group teacher for over twenty-five years. In the video, my mother talked about the stereotypes behind her job which was influenced by masculinity. She explained that daycare teachers is looked as “babysitters”. My mother does not like that comparison because her occupation that she worked hard for is not respected as a teacher but a home sitter. In article that we