The notion that violence is not just an act committed against another person or thing but that it is actually a gendered issue still makes me do a double take when I experience media.
The Jhally video presented some points
men make up 90% of violence
The news reports kids killing kids when in reality it is often boys doing the killing
it is all in the language that is in the media. "3 girls gang banged" as if it was the girls fault.
The idea that masculinity is not natural it's all cultural
media shows that murder is gutsy and daring- when often times it is done out of fear
Manhood= power and control
The notion of being a gangster comes from Italian mob and is emulated by urban black but it does not reflect "black culture" in turn white middle class adolescents emulate this inner city culture making it their own kind of twisted and new kind of culture. For people like my dad who can listen jazz and old rock and roll -songs of slavery and racial troubles- things he himself cannot relate to, but then when there are adolescents listening to biggie smalls or kid cudi there becomes this stigma of "kids these days trying to act black". Where is the line drawn? Why do the boxes of race and gender have to be so stiff in our eyes when in reality they are overlapping and creating each other.
The message throughout the is that violence has become normalized, masculinity is a cultural norm
violence has become sexualized and inturn we have become desensitized
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