Tough Guise

There were many things that I found to be interesting in this movie about the crisis in masculinity and how it is occurring in our world today. For example, when they show famous people from twenty years ago compared to today, the women are skinnier and the men are more muscular. There are people like Howard Stern who is considered a "bad-boy" or a "Rebel", when in reality he is nothing but flat-out sexist and treats women horribly. He has made them strip on episodes and the will criticize their body and make fun of them or even ask them personal questions about their lives. When the Columbine shooting was taped, there were girls running with their hands over their head. After Stern saw that he commented on how the boys should have taken advantage of that and had sex with them before they killed them.
Violence in our world has gotten worse because of the media. Video games and films make people, especially young boys who are just learning, think that violence is the way to handle everything. Sports such as wrestling show grown up violence and how increasingly aggresive it is getting. Boys think that being big, strong, and muscular gains respect. This is because it does in our world! The solution to this is that we must look at new ways of viewing masculinity and acknowledge vulnerability. For example, Mark McGuire who actually started crying during an interview when he was explaining how he was donating money to children sexually and physicially abused. Another example is in movies such as Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor when the actors show emotion and fear. WE must make that the norm. Men aren't the only people who can contribute to this change. Women have to show that they value beyond masculinity and we need courage to make that change.