Porter's Stereotypes

In 2010, Tony Porter gave a presentation grafted in a simple manner without the boring statistics but utilized four stories from his personal life to relay the message of empowerment of women and changing the “man box” idea. Tony Porter during the Ted Talk provides an advice to men to globally to ‘act not like a man” by breaking free from the “man box”. Tony Porter utilizes four powerful stories from his own life and that surrounding his family in order to drive the point home. Porter narrates the story of his young son and daughter on how he treats them different when it comes to certain situations. He tells of a time when he directs his five-year-old son who was sobbing to find a room and compose himself so that he can to talk to his father,
The story of his daughter and son during their emotions opening situation relays the lessons instilled on porter's mind during his childhood that men are not allowed emotions (Porter, 2010). It was ingrained in him that, “men had to be tough, had to be strong, courageous, dominating-no pain, no emotions, with the exception of anger” (Porter, 2010). Therefore, he directed his son to go and compose himself was a lesson from the past he was transferring to his son, “come back and talk to me when you can talk to me like a man" (Porter, 2010). From this story, Porter elaborates that it is allowed for a man to show emotions and everyone has to comprehend that showing emotions is not girly but human nature for both males and females in our society. The story of rape from Porter’s personal experience relays the point how mentality inserted into both boys and men minds can result in mistreatment, disrespect, and abuse of women. The young footballer’s narration is very true since according to the man box being called a girl was not part of being a man, hence someone was supposed to teach him that being a girl was not a negative thing and that it is okay to be whole (Porter,