JUSTIN BALDONI: A lot of people think that masculinity is under attack right now, and I would disagree. I think that masculinity is coming to a reckoning.
I came up with this idea for a show called Man Enough. I believe that we have a problem with masculinity and the fact that men don't really talk and have conversations. So, I'm like, let's create a show where men have real conversations.
—on this journey to figure out what the hell does it mean to be a man. I have no idea what it means to be a man.
MAN 1: And that all of us will be asked to, and will have to, be real men at the expense of being good men.
MAN 2: It's empowering for women to express themselves amongst each other. And it's giving away our power, as men, to express ourselves amongst other men.
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JUSTIN BALDONI: Fatherhood is hard. Anyone else struggling? I am. And that's OK. Doesn't make you weak. Doesn't make you less of a man. Doesn't mean that you're not a great dad or a great husband. Makes you human. That's what we have to do, is we have to become human.
But the truth about marriage and fatherhood is that it's messy.
TODDLER: [CRIES]
JUSTIN BALDONI: All right, kiddo. I'm going to sit on this stool right here, OK? I'm going to sit down right here, and you can come to me when you want to—when you're ready, OK? Come here. We just don't want to have tantrums in the middle of a big park for no reason, OK?
Maxwell—I get a chance to raise a son. I get a chance to raise a little man. And I get to teach him, maybe, all the things that, while my dad was amazing, my dad didn't teach me. I get to teach him that it's OK to cry, that it's OK to show his emotions, that it's OK to respect women. And I also get to teach him that Mama and Dada are not perfect, and that we're learning just like he's learning.
Whoo! Stinky!
TODDLER: I got all wet. I got all wet.
JUSTIN BALDONI: There is no father of the year without a mother of the year. And the truth is, is that I don't do anything well unless she does something amazing.
WOMAN: That's a real man willing to see that he needs his people, he needs his family, he needs his woman to be able to do everything that he's doing. That, to me, is a real man. That, to me, is a real father.
JUSTIN BALDONI: We're a team.
TODDLER: [SQUEALS]
JUSTIN BALDONI: So there's no glamorizing being a dad or being a husband. It's like, no, let's tell the real story, so that men can also know that they're not alone.
And I feel like we spend so much time, as men, putting on this mask and then pretending like we're good and we're strong and we're tough, when in reality we know that we don't know anything. We know deep down that we are not put together.
But the issues of masculinity, I believe, start with the way that we're raising our boys. And I really believe it's important that we don't raise our boys to be brave or strong or tough, but we raise them to be good humans.
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