Tough Guise 2

Watching Tough Guise 2 was definitely an enforcer to knowing that men need to hear and be educated about these things. Not only that, but if anyone watches this they can then be enlightened to seeing that THIS is why people believe that feminists 'hate men' and why men get defensive and say "Not All Men." Yes, we know that 'not all men' kill - but the stunning statistics that this documentary show will tell men just why woman might be frightened by any man that walks past her at night. It is a higher percentage of men doing violent acts and the media barely enforces that, as well. Just in this picture, anyone can see that we need to target men and masculinity when talking about these problems.

In the documentary, Jackson Katz talks about how the media portrays violence difference according to the cases. They tend to only bring gender into the title when it is women creating the crimes. They only bring up mental health when it is men being talked about. The media bounces around the subject, creating a false facade around the true facts. For these reasons, it is great to have this kind of documentary to show the truth and help bring it do the forefront of people's minds. Quite like the way the documentary Miss Representation brings in issues and presents them, Tough Guise 2 presents these issues in an easy to understand way and can be accessible to anyone. With Tough Guise 2, the information may be more likely for men and a broader audience to want to watch unlike Miss Representation in which people may feel like it is more 'for women' - no matter how ridiculous that sounds.

Something that I found to be intense about the documentary were the clips used throughout the video. I have mix feelings toward them. I do feel that it was necessary to show the violent clips of movies and video games and such to get across the point that these are visuals that people see everyday. But at times I felt that sometimes the documentary lingered on these clips for an awful long time. Then again, this could be part of the 'wow' factor to really help people understand that this is real. Going along with this, I think that if this is being showed in the type of setting like we did, there should be more trigger warnings. It did give a warning at the beginning of them film, but in a class our group setting, I do feel like there should be a trigger warning given - especially when it came to the section about violence in porn.

All in all, I think it is important to show these type of documentaries to classes and groups of people who need to learn about these subjects. I watched the Bowling for Columbine documentary in high school which was featured a couple times in Tough Guise 2 and I think these documentaries can have a wide range of viewers to help shed light on these topics. I do feel that Tough Guise 2 might be geared toward a more adult audience - but something like Miss Representation can still be showed in high schools and can also start conversations that Tough Guise 2 talks about before college - which is very important.