Tough Guise 2

     In the film Tough Guise 2, Jackson Kratz is challenging the viewer to rethink the stereotype on manhood. He goes and talks about how men are much more likely to commit crimes than women. In today's culture men are taught to be tough and masculine and any form of weakness is seen as feminine. Men are taught to put up a wall due to being scared of being seen as feminine. Men aren't supposed to show any emotion, they have to be strong. He goes and says that we scare men in society into having a complex of being seen as “too feminine.” 

    Kratz goes into talking about how movies have to do a lot with the complex we give men. Most movies show men as very sexual, violent and disrespectful towards women. Such movies make men think that they need to do these things to be masculine. These kinds of movies link violence to being masculine. They show that caring about women is for “pussys and fags.” Men are taught to achieve power through violence. Some men also see that “acting black” makes them seem tougher. Kratz goes on throughout the film using the famous quote “boys will be boys.” What really makes boys boys? When interviewing black men most looked up to Italian mafia movies. These movies portray gangs and violence with very tough Italian men. Kratz goes to say this is a big reason for men being so violent. This film gives an insight on why men are more violent in today's society. 

    In the op doc "The Boys Are Not All Right" By Michael Ian Black he goes and talks about school shootings and how most of them are done by boys. He writes "America’s boys are broken. And it’s killing us." This really stands out to me because in society we don't focus on men being so broken. We think of all men as strong and masculine. If we don't they are seen as too feminine. He says that in recent years boys have just been left behind due to girls being told they can do anything and outperforming them. Both the film Tough Guise 2 and The Boys Are Not All Right they discuss how too many boys are being trapped in what it means to be masculine. They both start the conversation on how we need to help boys see that being masculine isn't the only way to become a man. 


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