In Tough Guys masculinity is characterized as, an act, a pose, or a mask to hide men from being human. Like wise, in Killing Them Softly 3 femininity is having no facial lines, a trim chin, no pores, passive, and being an object of heterosexual desire or male assault. Both of these findings from the videos show that our society’s standards of what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, are mainly shielded by false depictions that mask our humanity.
As far as race is concerned, Kilbourne showed an add that illustrated how most men tend to out size or have women in a lower, passive position, but changes when race is added. The next add shoed a black child looking up to a white child. That makes me wonder how many more adds there are of people of color being submissive to a dominant white figure.
Seeing a picture of Obama tearing up over the Tucson shooting as he speaks to a crowd in Arizona
I was watching the Charlie Rose show and Charlie Rose was talking to Brian Williams about the shooting. I was keeping in mind that in the Tough Guys most of the assailants to the school shooting crimes were passed as psychotic and separate from what normal, American society would influence. This is similar to how the Tucson
First off, I think the connection between men crying and women farting is hilarious. I would never have thought to connect the two things but it's completely true! I completely agree with you about the commercials. I wonder how many times I've seen a commercial and just agreed with it and never realized the racism that was hidden among it.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point of how when you see a man crying, it's a huge deal and their seen as a sissy. Same with a woman, if they fart or even burp it's seen as the most disgusting thing ever even though men do it daily. Just the other day my brother was drinking wine, he's a basketball player and as the media would say a "tough guy", but my dad saw him drinking wine and immediately called him a sissy for drinking it. What's so wrong with it, he was drinking something he enjoys and it changes nothing about his personal self. It's crazy what the media can do.
ReplyDeleteThis was a really interesting post. The comment about men crying and women farting or burping couldn't be more true and was a clever comparison. It's funny though, all of those things really are things that humans are naturally supposed to do so why should it be so awful that a man may cry or a woman may fart from time to time. Ah! I didn't even like that typing that...guess you've proven your point. Your last paragraph was also eye opening too. I feel that the media is making violence seem so much more acceptable, and even masculine for men, and it scares me to think where that will lead us in the futre.
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