Tuesday, 5 January 2010



TOUGH GUİSE

When "men" is said, the words physical,strong, powerful, tough and indepent etc. are thought. This is learnt from family, community and media. In media, Latin men expressed as boxers, criminals and Asian men showed as martial artists and violent criminals.

Violent is not talked as gender issue even though %90 of guilties are men. Because men are dominant group and they are not examined. We only focus on rare groups. When boys kill boys or girls, it is not discussed. But if girls are criminals, it would be a subject. It is unusual only when women do it.

In media, male's body becomes bigger whereas female body becomes thinner. Also guns become bigger too.

Men shows violence to gay people, because they thought that their image of power, strength, strong will be damaged.

Tough guise think women valid this.It should be shown that it is not true. Also, we should break monopoly of media system