Tuesday, December 1, 2009
6. Tough Guise
The narrator tells in this video about the men role in society and how the media represent men and violence together. Unfortunately beginning with early ages boys have the obigation of being tough in society in other words front of people. As the teller mentioned it out, otherwise they might be called as 'sissy' or words similar to this nick names. In addition when the commercials or movies are looked, the increasing violence and power show can be easily seen. In the video some statistics had given about the increasing power show. Rather than past few years now the male role is imaged with muscles and maco behaviours and in addition female role also has been replacing. Now a days female images usually represent the sexism. He also mentioned an important point about violence news by saying that; althoug most crimes and violence has been done by male, media indicate male as invisible character. However the irony is although people usually do not pay attention when men engage in violence, when a women do this people usually get shocked and all the newspapers and also TV news feel the obligation of remarking the gender. As a good point this tough guise situation must be observed since males were boys. Unfortunately this tough guise syndrome is the result of media, by representing male roles in strict boundaries, such as strength,power, having the control and also the way families raise their child under media effects.
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Hi Ece,
ReplyDeleteIt's good to give such a thorough summary of the films - but how about including some of your own reactions? To what extent do you accept the theses put forth by Katz and Kilbourne?