The film "Tough Guise" really opened my eyes of why some guys act the way they do. A benefit maybe that this "tough guy" mentality can lead people to fear them and then they will respect them. They become confident and feared by others and that may make them mean and develop a "big ego", I would candider this a disadvantage. I think some people would consider this film "male bashing" because it points out the flaws in men and their mentality. This film also points out that men are the ones doing all the violence and crime in society and ultimately puts a negative image on men. But we have to remember that not all men are alike, some are lead back and they don't use violence to gain respect. A lot of the men who are feared don't get bullied. "Male bashing" is the negative act portrayed to men by using negative images or portraying men in a negative way.
The way this film shed light on the stereotypes of African American and or Hispanic men. The media shows them always wearing saggy pants, caring a gun and or associated with a gang. We may see black men on the cover of a sports magazine or locked up in jail. Hispanic men maybe seen in a baseball magazine or sealing weed to one or his hommies. The media stereotypes men all the time. I think men see these stereotypes and they feel like they have to live up too them. They feel like they have to be tough and bully people to get their manly point across. this "Tough Guy" image can be embedded into their minds at a very young age by there fathers or a male role model they grown up around. This mentality can be pasted down from generation to generation creating men into monsters.
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