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?

He says men (and much of women) are going to have to change. It’s natural that we should look at life as a binary thing — male/female forever — it’s all we’ve ever known, from amoeba upwards. But it’s not about changing male behaviour — because that ain’t going to happen. Tthe future long longterm is unigender, not female —- men having served their purpose (to excess) and gotten extincted — but human and of a single gender. And then what happens to good old evolution you ask. Just have to wait and see.

The OTT sociopathy/criminality of men we witness currently as a last backlash of the macho uh, ‘tail’ will be phased out as more women take more power over time. Technology (brains) is always gonna win, however your 6-pack ‘n biceps and women are filling the brainy professions as men drop out into porn and vid games and beer (all part of the plan guys if you think about it) (hey i’m just the messenger spare your ammunition). Life doesn’t give a fk about gender, as it were — but which ok, has served its purpose up until now, but faces along with men, total redundancy.

Since that old binary fission system currently threatens to do us all in something has to change, and it will, and radical. It’s not about a cull as such, of males but selective breeding (with no need for infanticide — as per females in China). Sounds bizarre today well, but tomorrow i guess we’ll see. If it sounds like a drag to anybody addicted to his cock (urs truly included..) go check out the alternative — another millenium of this? Of war? Abuse of resources? Hollywood action/rape/misogyny movies? Football and wrestling? Gangstas/Rap? .. Too fkn boring, face it, so do us a favour someone? Test-tube this way, but don’t let’s worry guys, sex will still happen, but it’ll be the real thing, not the reel thing and it might look a bit different. Some bright guy once said ‘good satisfying sex without violence is impossible’, and maybe that’s the ultimate challenge of this looming new reality — can life be any good without muscle ‘n beer ‘n steroids ‘n guns. I guess we’re just going to have to find out.

But the film’s narrative contains an unfortunate (but blatant) racist/classist subtext: the narrator is of a particular social class (he calls himself an “anti-violence educator.” ie. doesn’t have to work for a living) and he is ranting on about how scary and violent black and working class white males are. They’re a pretty easy target for someone who has all day to think about how to attack other men (with words instead of fists). And if his story is just a fig leaf for his own animal-vs-animal competition for prey (audience), then it isn’t really useful as a educational tool, is it?

He never mentions the role that economic violence/predation plays in creating physical desperation that degenerates into physical brutality. Like a lot of pseudo-documentarians, he examines just enough symptoms of a larger phenomenon to build a story that elevates the sub-culture making/watching the video. This is a self-empowering video that works to disempower blacks, working class males, and other people who have to carry the weight of an obscenely wealthy banker-driven culture of hyperconsumption and slavery.

Perhaps the film’s producers are inadvertently working towards their own self interest, but whether it’s self conscious or not, the subjectively skewed choice of symptoms they examine distorts most of the positive message that could be gained with a more objective narrative voice. The absence of any mention of economic predation turns this “issue” story into propaganda against economically-disadvantaged groups – something we’d expect from commercial media.

Rather than attacking that primary abuse of power and resource allocation, the film seems to go after the victims of exploitation themselves by calling them violent: why not call these lower social-ranking males “repulsive” like the elites of olde?