Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Yes and no.

The overlying message is worth discussing.

However, he uses the same old damaging, misleading and inaccurate stereotypes to make his case.
http://www.menweb.org/pronevio.htm

For instance, research shows again and again that domestic violence is largely reciprocal, and the fact that we've made very little headway in decreasing it by focusing only on men suggests that we're not going to solve a cycle of violence by ostracizing only one party.

If the ideas of strength, toughness of character and independence are off limits in a redefinition of what it means to be a man, I hope he has little success. These character traits are not negatives, nor are they solely the result of social conditioning. They are inbuilt to many of our inherent behaviors.

When I think of a masculine ideal, I see Smedley Butler and Jamie Escalante.

http://reason.com/archives/2002/07/01/stand-and-deliver-revisited/singlepage