Tough Guise 2

Wow, well I thoroughly enjoyed this film, just about everything about it. Tough Guise, showed the audience constant examples of why masculine aggression is so problematic, and why it needs to be treated as a male issue. When I got to thinking about it, anytime I hear about a shooting or a bombing, I always assume it was a man, probably a white man. However I had never really put a whole lot of thought into it before watching this. The fact that if it were a woman or someone that was not white who was the perpetrator it would become an issue of gender or race, but not when it is a white male, boggled my mind. I guess I never thought about it because I just always assume, but I do not think that is the case for everyone.
What really struck me was when Jackson Katz began talking about school shootings and children. The fact that we make it a "kids issue" if a little boy kills people is disgusting, you cannot put every child into one category like that. This can be related back to Dude You're a Fag, because most of the kids that do end up going to these drastic of measurers are the ones who are constantly emasculated in school and are often seen as the "out casts" of their school.
My only critique to this is that he talked so much about TV, movies, and video games, but failed to recognize the problem media causes. In high school, after the Boston Marathon Bombings, we had a large discussion on why shooters and bombers do what they do. And a lot of it was equated to a moment in the spot light. Katz did touch on how many thought this was the only way to get attention, but why did they think this? Because of all publicity and air time these stories get, for someone who is that troubled and hurt, many not only want others to feel their pain, but also have people know their name.
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this film and think it is very important for more people to realize how much of a problem this is. We need to stop looking at little areas of crime, like inner city kids, and focus on the real issues: white males.