I really liked this documentary. I thought that it made a lot of good points that are largely ignored. I hadn't noticed that media and the news only focus on gender or race when the perpetrator of a crime is not a white male. I had noticed that when white men commit terrible acts of violence, mental illness is usually the main topic discussed. While mental illness should be addressed in our culture, this does not excuse the crime. When a black man commits a much smaller crime (Michael Brown, Eric Garner) they are torn apart by the media, calling them "thugs" and implying that by allegedly committing small crimes, they deserved to die.
I also liked that the documentary pointed out the issues without blaming specific people. The documentary did not blame white men for creating this problem, they blamed the "tough guy" image. This image of masculinity is what men in our society strive for, and others are policing male behavior and punishing people for not fitting the expected mold. This is the problem. What I would have liked to have seen were suggestions for change, or ways to deal with this phenomenon.
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