Tough Guise: Class, Race, And Gender
How did the film get us thinking about class, race, and gender?
The primary way Tough Guise gets us to think about class, race, and gender is by showing how the media presents them. It was shown that when someone says class it is assumed low class, when race is brought up minorities are assumed, and gender typically warrants the idea of a female. This shows that everything is presented through the idea of a majority viewing a minority. The most striking way Tough Guise brings up the topic of gender is the lack thereof in reporting on violent crimes. Gender is typically removed from the equation when reporting information on crimes, but when a women commits a violent crime the focus of the information is about her womanhood. Another example of gendering and how it affects our society is …show more content…
Much like in the example of genderless media coverage, “boys will be boys” removes the blame from the boy and puts it to the individual for not expecting the situation. Not only does this hurt the individuals on the receiving end of the issue, but it also hurts men too.
Why is it important to understand that violence isn't simply learned or an individual trouble (e.g., a mental illness)?
It is imperative to understand that violence is not an individual trouble because it erases the effects society has all together. Our society has propagated these violent behaviors through strict gender binaries, and fragile masculinity. Although I did not create the term fragile masculinity, I find that it is an accurate way of describing the harmful nature of masculinity, especially within our culture where masculine actions cause not only self harm to the male populace, but to the society as a whole. This is in no way putting down men within society, but rather evaluating the underlying difficulties that are caused by our perception of what a man should and should not be, do, act, etc. Instead of acquainting violence to personal troubles it is more productive to question the true
The primary way Tough Guise gets us to think about class, race, and gender is by showing how the media presents them. It was shown that when someone says class it is assumed low class, when race is brought up minorities are assumed, and gender typically warrants the idea of a female. This shows that everything is presented through the idea of a majority viewing a minority. The most striking way Tough Guise brings up the topic of gender is the lack thereof in reporting on violent crimes. Gender is typically removed from the equation when reporting information on crimes, but when a women commits a violent crime the focus of the information is about her womanhood. Another example of gendering and how it affects our society is …show more content…
Much like in the example of genderless media coverage, “boys will be boys” removes the blame from the boy and puts it to the individual for not expecting the situation. Not only does this hurt the individuals on the receiving end of the issue, but it also hurts men too.
Why is it important to understand that violence isn't simply learned or an individual trouble (e.g., a mental illness)?
It is imperative to understand that violence is not an individual trouble because it erases the effects society has all together. Our society has propagated these violent behaviors through strict gender binaries, and fragile masculinity. Although I did not create the term fragile masculinity, I find that it is an accurate way of describing the harmful nature of masculinity, especially within our culture where masculine actions cause not only self harm to the male populace, but to the society as a whole. This is in no way putting down men within society, but rather evaluating the underlying difficulties that are caused by our perception of what a man should and should not be, do, act, etc. Instead of acquainting violence to personal troubles it is more productive to question the true