Comments on: Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

By: Vivek Chaudhary

Vivek Chaudhary — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:38:00 +0000

I am pretty sure Katz DOES say that in the film though…

By: refter

refter — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:52:00 +0000

hahaha level: straight out of puberty. i cannot say i am impressed with the movie but what i liked particularly about this doc was a notion that right wing people with their radical attitudes are actually compensating for their inner insecurities. after this i cannot not see you as gay.

By: .drea.

.drea. — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:16:00 +0000

Not working?

By: Epicurus

Epicurus — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:31:00 +0000

i completely agree with you. this is a great documentary and i have used it in two essays i have done for psychology and anthropology on gender roles.

By: VickyZoo

VickyZoo — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:24:00 +0000

As a female highschool teacher, and the head of a genderstudies department I find this documentary educational and eye opening. I put it in the same catgory as “MissRepresentation” in that it talks about what all of us see in society but are unable to understand why we let it be so acceptable. Those of you that see it as a attack on masculinity are looking at it from the wrong perspective.

By: jbriggs_87

jbriggs_87 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:54:00 +0000

this movie is bullshit. boys have never been less tough.

By: iesika

iesika — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:38:00 +0000

Rape stats are increasing because reporting is increasing, not because of changed definitions. In many states, it’s still legal for man to violently rape his wife as often as he feels like it.

When 2/3 of men will be raped in their lifetime (and 1/3 raped more than once), then we can talk about how all women are entitled bitches. Until then, go to hell.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:27:00 +0000

They changed the foxes genetically. That’s not nurture. They literally bred it out of them, genetically.

Nurture is when two specimens of equal genetics behave differently. The experiment you refer to had the foxes change genetics over time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

notice the HUGE increase in rape that began then)

There hasn’t been a “huge increase in rape”, there’s only been an increase in “rape stats”, because feminists merely expanded the definition.

Read Christina Hoff Sommer’s piece on the latest CDC expansion, where merely “asking too often” for sex is now also “rape”.

Feminists did the following:

-Not verbally asking for sex is rape (Miss so and so, may I have penetrative sex with you)

-Asking for sex is now ALSO rape

In other words, feminists have just redefined ALL heterosexual sex as rape. They finally succeeded.

By: Kev Lin

Kev Lin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:51:00 +0000

in order to understand behaviors one must unerstand “conditioning”. Violence can be condtioned out of an entire species just as easily as it is to condition violence into them. If one disagrees with this statment then im asking them to research the history of dogs and the recent study on White Foxes that took place a few years ago; these scientist proved that animals can change their violent behavior through changing its environment, in the end the white foxes began to look like dogs because of the change in behavior. It is a myth in our modern culture that humans are violent, no questiions asked, but im sorry you must question everything in order to find truth

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:35:00 +0000

the men endorsing this video are losers, arguing for a more pussified society to try and level the playing field. if they were alpha, they’d have no desire to change the status quo. i’m not endorsing violence or intolerance, i’m endorsing competition. i think james caan was spot on… the man who is ‘not to be trifled with’ has equipped himself with the brains and brawn necessary to imbue genuine self-confidence. And self-confidence, friends is the definition of alpha. A man who can impose his will upon his environment through logical persuasion, and defend his establishment through force if necessary against undeserving usurpers, is king. The rest of you nitpicking from the sidelines to have the rules of the game changed will be phased out by natural selection. Arm yourself by cultivating the gifts God gave you, of intelligence and strength, or else pick up a pompom and play your position.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:41:00 +0000

I happen to have met the Jackson Katz, the man many people are talking badly about on here. He is an extremely intelligent and thoughtful individual. I also watched this movie in a class I took and found it to be incredibly insightful. I am currently a high school teacher and have classes of mainly high school boys, and I see a lot of what this documentary discusses. I enjoyed this documentary so much then, I’ve checked out his other work and am watching this again!

By: Epicurus

Epicurus — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:16:00 +0000

what didnt you like?

this documentary was suggested to me by a professor at my university and i think it was very good.

but granted you only gave it 15 mins…so what was it that you disliked so much?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:46:00 +0000

turn this off after 15 minutes. couldnt listen to that id**t any longer

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:07:00 +0000

Who ever was involved with making this documentary should have their a55 beat!