8Tough Guise 2 - Lecture notes 8 PDF

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The idea of heterogender “Violent Masculinity” 86% of robberies are men 87% of stalkers are men 86% of domestics are men 97% of rapes are men 61 of 62 shootings have been men Violence by boys is violences by “kids” and is framed as a youth problem, not a g problem. We don’t hear much about how women who suffer from mental illness, hav substance issues, are in the same media saturated with violence, but it is ig “Violence against women” and the fact that men are nowhere to be found i we see it as a women’s issue for some reason, and focus on helping victim than the perpetrators; men. When girls and women act out in fights, then that becomes the story, much race and culture does in crime. This is a function of dominance. The dominant group doesn’t get pu the groups. We focus on the subordinate, and not the dominant. The remain invisible. When it comes to invisibility, the dominant group has perfecte When men do get thrown into things, their biology gets put into play; men’s violen about testosterone and how they are programmed to be violent. Men’s violence is “inevitable” because “boys will be boys.” The NRA blames the entertainment industry, and the entertainment industry blam NRA. However, they have been hand in hand. The video game industry and the entertainment industry are paid for the gu use. Cultural violence is cultural masculinity, and what the culture teaches boys it means to be a man. Boys are taught to act tough, and not show emotion, can’t think too much, can’t down when someone disrespects them, be aggressive with women, and they are a box that is ready to explode. Boys then put up a tough “guise” so that they have a front. Boys serve sometimes as gender cops. It comes however, from fathers, co etc. Being a man is about being dominant, in control, etc. The Hollywood Western holds a lot of power of what men are supposed to be now especially with John Wayne. Hollywood Gangster Films would follow. The equatio between men, violence, and toughness has only intensified. The line between being a man, and using violence to prove that you’re a man....