Spacecat

Answer each question in depth and provide specific evidence from

the text or speaker whenever available. The more you write, the better!

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SPEAKER: Justin Baldoni is the speaker. He is an actor famously known for male
Who is the speaker/writer? roles. He doesn’t see himself as powerful. He is a man who has formally
What do we know about
them? What can you tell or
expressed gender stereotypes on him, he has also expressed some toxic
what do you know about masculinity in his life unintentionally. He wants the gender inequality to
the speaker that helps you end. He is sensitive. He grew up with a sensitive father and resented it.
understand the point of
view expressed?

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PURPOSE:
What is the speaker/writer
hoping to accomplish?
What is the reason behind
this piece? What do they
want the audience to do
after having listened?
As a man the views of toxic masculinity should be ended. He wants men
to be vulnerable and drop the gender stereotypes, he wants men to
treat women equally, men need to break the wall that they put up.
Women need to forgive men for their mistakes and help them change.
Parents need to teach children to be good people who do not fit gender
norms. Be good humans, look toward your heart.

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AUDIENCE:
Who is the speaker/writer
trying to reach? How do we
know? Do they indicate a
specific audience? What
assumptions exist in the
text about the intended
audience?
Primarily men, he directly addresses them in the audience of the room.
He changes to women asking them to forgive men for the behavior. He
then addresses parents and asks them to change what they teach their
children. He conveys it mostly to men, but it's themes fit all audiences
and he opens up his scope to all audiences. The intended audience can
be assumed by his almost constant direction toward men and the use of
we, for example, “Now, men -- I am not saying that everything we have
learned is toxic.” This demonstrates that he is focussing on men as a
whole and including himself in that scope.

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CONTEXT: November 2017. In the TED Women conference. He says this in the
What is the time and place United States which has been known for some terrible cases of toxic
of this piece? What is
happening in the world as
masculinity. The world still practices things that are forms of toxic
it relates to the subject of masculinity, the world encourages abuse, violence, porn, treating
the speech or the women like objects not people etcetera. ME TOO Movement.
speaker/writer?

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EXIGENCE: He was tired of seeing men hide their soft side from the public. He
What was the spark or wanted to be able to express his true self. He felt guilty for hiding the
catalyst that moved the
speaker/writer to
true nature of himself. He was also tired of men following gender
act/write? How did that stereotypes and abusing women. Tired of Performing. Helping other
event impact the people helped him realize.
speaker/writer?
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CHOICES:
What are the rhetorical
choices that the
speaker/writer makes in
the speech? Think about
overall structure, devices,
diction, syntax, etc.
A
APPEALS:
Which of the three
rhetorical appeals (ethos,
logos, pathos) are present
in the text? Where? Why?
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TONE:
What is the
speaker/authors attitude
toward the subject? Is the
tone the same throughout
the whole piece? Where
does it shift? What
evidence is there to
demonstrate the tone?
He jokes around with his audience making them laugh and start trusting
him. He asks a bunch of questions the audience should think about to
encourage them to open up and apply his ideas. He lists examples from
his life that made him think about this issue. He gives men a challenge
because that's what most men are comfortable with. Repetition of He
when referring to his father. He gives evidence and explains the impact
on his life he then states what needs to be done to resolve the problem.
Justin Baldoni conveys emotion through laughter which makes people
happy, and emotional appeal to different audiences an example of this
is, “As an example, a little while ago I was wrestling with an issue in my
life that I knew I needed to talk to my guy friends about, but I was so
paralyzed by fear that they would judge me and see me as weak and I
would lose my standing as a leader that I knew I had to take them out
of town on a three-day guys trip” He shows he is human, he opens up
to his audience. He is a well known actor demonstrating that he is
important. He uses social media to explain that women generally follow
sensitive things but men follow masculine things, he did a research
study.
He is positive and neutral at first, he adds humor, but then he gets to
the important part and gets serious. He opens up how he was toxic and
how men need to stop the toxic behavior. He goes back to a forgiving
tone and accepts they won’t be perfect and that we need to work
together to fix this. His tone is constant for most of it, but when he gets
to the most important part of his speech he gets deadly serious. It shifts
at, “This is serious stuff” before leading to his toxic masculinity.
Evidence of his positive tone is, “Just to open up. And guess what? It
wasn't until the end of the third day that I finally found the strength to
talk to them about what I was going through. But when I did, something
amazing happened. I realized that I wasn't alone, because my guys had
also been struggling.” this shows that he was positive and more neutral.