Tough Guise

SUMMARY

Tough guises , a documentary film of 1999 , feature Jackson Katz , who clearly and systematically addresses social construction of male identities in the United States as perpetuated by the media . Masculinity identity of men is expansively addressed in this film (covers close to three quarters of the documentary ) and the media 's contribution to its sustainability in the society . Jackson Katz in this documentary brings out masculinity as a pose or a mask men put up to sculpture their idea of real men as been powerful , in control , intimidating , independent overruling

, stud and tough . In contrary they that do not portray such a pose have a high price to pay for not qualifying as real men , they are seen as cowards or `mama 's (mothers ) boy . The film also captures cultural developments in a scope of more than 30 years ago that are seen to be responsible for the current gender-based forms of violence such as rape , shootings in school and domestic violence as perpetuated by the media and society

Violent masculinity is clearly illustrated using statistics that show the male gender commit most of the crimes . More than 90 of murder cases , dating violence , assaults , domestic violence and child sexual abuses are committed by men . However efforts to curb this seem to be ineffectual as long as the media holds its position . Instances have been captured in this documentary of how the media focuses on the subordinate groups rather than the dominant groups when it comes to cases of...