My project shows the differences between healthy masculinity and toxic masculinity. It highlights the problem with being a bystander to toxic masculinity, which is a huge issue in the modern world. In my project the bystanders are silhouettes in the background. Every day we hear about cases of sexual harassment in the workplace (and in other places as well), and about bystanders who do nothing to stop it. I want my audience to see that when you are a bystander of sexual harassment you are allowing it to happen. Krishna shows that we need to stand against sexual harassment. Men aren’t masculine by harassing women or treating women like objects. We need to stop ignoring this issue and start calling out inappropriate behavior.
Image 1
Frame 1:
Draupadi: Yudhistira, how could you stake your own wife! You can’t stake someone else if you’ve lost yourself.
Frame 2:
Draupadi: O God Krishna! Incarnation of Vishnu, please help me!
Sakuni: You will come with us and that’s final.
Frame 3:
Krishna: None of you will harm her, I won’t allow it!
Sakuni: Oh no! She has the protection of god!
Image 2
Frame 1:
Sakuni: Come with me now, you are our slave.
Draupadi: This is not ok! I am a person, not property.
Frame 2:
Draupadi: This is monstrous. How can you all be silent!?
Sakuni: Yudhistira has lost a bet. You are now a slave!
Frame 3:
Sakuni: Yudhistira lost everything, including himself. So he staked you.