Tough Guise 2 Katz Analysis

"Tough Guise 2" featuring Jackson Katz starts by pulling on viewers heartstrings with news reports on recent shootings. These were such significant and traumatizing events from not too long ago. These shootings are still an incredibly big deal, even today. Jackson Katz makes a rather valid point when he says that maybe we need to stop focusing on the wrong details. He then continues to explain how men may be the sole problem behind these aggressive actions. Men seem to be dismissed from their violent crimes due to the fact that they have "testosterone". I believe that we shouldn't be supporting raising boys and young men to think they shouldn't have feelings. The representation of men is not having feelings or emotions, being stronger than woman, and being overly aggressive. I even asked my boyfriend “what is your definition of the representation of men?” and he replied with “are you talking about masculinity?”. This just go to show how this representation is engraved in men’s heads. Katz also wrote The Macho Paradox Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help as well as Leading Men Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood. These are only some of the …show more content…
Females are usually represented by their bodies, nurturing abilities, and household maintenance. Some of this representation can be seen in John Beager’s “Ways if Seeing”. Beager discusses Kenneth Clarks book The Nude, and how it develops a representation of women. One section that stood out to I will directly quote because I believe his words are perfectly on target. Beager claims “To be naked is to be oneself, to be nude is to be seen by others and yet not recognized for oneself…a nude has to be seen as an object in order to be a nude…”. Females are represented as being objects and not as being human beings. Reager also references Adam and Eve. He tells viewers about how they were made to see nakedness differently. As a result of Eve’s choice, she is blamed and placed beneath