Who Gives The Concept of Being "Real Man" ?
The documentary Tough Guise 2 prove what makes men tend to violence and crime. The masculine culture gives men some features. some of these are being tough, powerful, muscular, respected and independent. The most significant part of culture which makes males tend to have these features is media. The "real man" model is given people by media by programmes which present men commiting crime as heroes and repectful people.
90% of crimes were commited by man because in the media, the being man means being violent.
Having a muscular and big size body, being powerful, strong and violent make you a respected man. Also, a Real Man cannot show his weaknesses, he always be quite and hide his emotions.
Obviously, these are not acceptable and common-sensical because all of these cases create an psychologically unhealthy male gender in society. The sexual violence and assaults against women and being dominance on women are results of that kind of culture.
The documentary impressed me so much, since it is interpreted by a man named Jackson Katz. The documentary was a kind of given real face of men by a man. It must be not easy for a man.
A good summary of the film.
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