Author or Title or text 

 About the boys: Tim Winton on how toxic

masculinity is shackling men to misogyny (Tom
Winton)
What were the central ideas about masculinity  That in some ways it can be toxic and that it can
conveyed in this text?  move young boys to become misogynistic without
even knowing it. This is evident through the way
  they talk about women so freely in ways were
they’re being seen as inhumane such like an
  object.

Are there any new or interesting ideas in this  An interesting idea brought up is that toxic
text?  masculinity is a burden to men.

 
How do you respond to the ideas in this text?  I agree with them completely. They make me feel
Would you agree or disagree with them? How more understanding and knowing of the situation
did they make you feel?  young men like myself are going through and that
we should try and counteract it with using different
  language and having a different mindset.

Make a link between this text and one of the
other texts you have watched or listened to.
 
Another text I have read is about a mother writing
a letter to her newly born son and how she wants
to the shape him into becoming a respectful man,
this correlates to the other text through what the
other man what’s young men to be like.

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/a-letter-to-my-darling-boy-by-clementine-
ford-20181004-p507qz.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/09/about-the-boys-tim-winton-on-how-toxic-
masculinity-is-shackling-men-to-misogyny