Tough Guise

Figure 1. Dodge Ram, (2008). Note: Copyright Caveman 92223 (made available under a Creative Commons licence)

Tough Guise was an interesting document. It rubs in some examples which we cannot notice during the daily life but which we live with.

One of the shocking scene for me was the Superman part. At first, they showed us the first Superman in 1950's. He was a pretty normal type, more precisely, he didn't have giantic muscles. After that, other Supermen were shown througout the next 50 years. Everytime the "new" Superman was more pretentious than the former one. Quite true!

I agree with one point in the documentary: A girl crime comes up in news with more sensation than a boy's crime. Actually, when a boy commits crime and that is pressed in the media, it sounds quite normal to us. However, when a girl does the same, we react as if this is the last day of the universe. Totally true, we got used to boy's crime; boys are likely to cause harm and this seems to be their right.

One more point: In the documentary, it says that men's sexual abuse to women mostly seems to be a joke. A man in a film, for example, shouts insulting words at a woman. Although it is rude of him, the man is supported by his masculin watchers because what he did was a joke and a man could absolutely make such jokes in society. Whereas men's sexual abuse to women began to seem normal, women's also seems to be normal, which wasn't stated or shown in the documentary. Lets say: in a film a woman tries to seduce his boss (what a familiar case) and then he sleeps with her and the film goes on somehow... In this scene, this woman's trial to attract him is also normal for us, don't you think?


p.s. Dodge Ram is a car (truck) brand