The film is called "Tough Guise Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity"
Originally I thought it was going to be a "blame men" movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's really very interesting.
So after the movie we had a class discussion. I took the opportunity to bring up the subject of how important it is when discussing male on female violence and sexual abuse that people need to remember not to do so in a blaming way that demonizes or belittles men. The movie examines how society teaches men to be violent. One thing I hadn't noticed before is the way movies sexualize violence in slasher films by depicting women in a way that would get males aroused and then showing violence right at the point where males are most aroused by the image of the woman in the movie. It's true that movies do that and if you think about it, it's kinda screwed up.
During the discussion one of the women in class mentioned that she had been sexually assaulted and she said she had struggled to try to help her husband understand how it made her feel. I pointed out to her that rape to a woman is comparable to a violent mugging and assault for a man. I explained that while to women rape feels like an attack on their femininity and identity as a woman, a violent mugging and an assault feels like an attack on a man's masculinity and identity as a man. The class had a very good discussion on how important it is to not blame men or women as a whole over issues like this and that blaming only leads to a breakdown in dialouge before it even gets started.
It was a really good class.
I think the film is something every guy on here should try to see as it is one of the few that addresses male on female violence and what contributes to it happening without bashing men.
Originally I thought it was going to be a "blame men" movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's really very interesting.
So after the movie we had a class discussion. I took the opportunity to bring up the subject of how important it is when discussing male on female violence and sexual abuse that people need to remember not to do so in a blaming way that demonizes or belittles men. The movie examines how society teaches men to be violent. One thing I hadn't noticed before is the way movies sexualize violence in slasher films by depicting women in a way that would get males aroused and then showing violence right at the point where males are most aroused by the image of the woman in the movie. It's true that movies do that and if you think about it, it's kinda screwed up.
During the discussion one of the women in class mentioned that she had been sexually assaulted and she said she had struggled to try to help her husband understand how it made her feel. I pointed out to her that rape to a woman is comparable to a violent mugging and assault for a man. I explained that while to women rape feels like an attack on their femininity and identity as a woman, a violent mugging and an assault feels like an attack on a man's masculinity and identity as a man. The class had a very good discussion on how important it is to not blame men or women as a whole over issues like this and that blaming only leads to a breakdown in dialouge before it even gets started.
It was a really good class.
I think the film is something every guy on here should try to see as it is one of the few that addresses male on female violence and what contributes to it happening without bashing men.