Tough Guise Summary

The dagger of deception can be more painful than physical wounds themselves. These two faced, deceitful appearances and words can cause great emotional pain and ruin. This is the case in the novel Warcross, by Marie Lu. Emika Chen, data miner extraordinaire, gets into a relationship with the CEO of Warcross, Hideo Tanaka, who breaks her heart by keeping his secret savage side from her, hiding it with the facade of his composed businessman attitude. The bounty hunter who she pledges to take down crushes her soul immediately by stealing all of her memories that she keeps near and dear to her. Emika is left unable to chase him down, but gets grief-stricken when the true identity of the person Hideo hired her to hunt down turns out out to be Hideo’s

In discussions on the topic of lying, a controversial issue has been whether there is justification of lying or not. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if there is ever a time when a lie can be told for the good of someone else. Whereas some are convinced that lies should never be told, others agree that there are certain instances where lying is acceptable because the liar protects the one lied to. In the essay “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, she explores the types of lies and how they affect everyday people. In Anton Chekhov’s fictional story, “The Lady with the Dog,” he displays two characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, lying for love and to avoid consequence by their spouses. I stand against lying for the benefit of oneself because I think that it has the ability to ruin relationships or friendships and is hard to keep up the lies which leads to creating more lies. Although some people think that there are circumstances that warrant lying, I claim that no one should lie because lies end up hurting both people involved: the liar and the person lied to.

A particular question that is seldom pondered over and yet is capable of carrying so many doubts within it: who are we? Who are we as a society who can do the things we do? Who are we who can suffer from them? Award winning poet and essayist Susan Griffin confronts these distinct questions in her work titled, “Our Secret”. Griffin believes that a basic understanding of the things that play a part in the growth of an individual is essential to understanding who we are. The way a child is raised dictates how that child is going to become later on in life. One of the distinct highlights of Griffin’s essay was her use of describing the progress of the V1 rockets in World War II. Griffin studies the aspects of human nature by using these missile developments as a metaphor to symbolize the raising of children and the factors that can influence a growing individual. One of the prime figures that Griffin uses pertaining to these growing individuals was Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi secret police. Griffin uses Himmler as an example to demonstrate how big of a role a parental figure can play in the development of a person.

Tough Guise provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men usually receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, etc. What does it takes to become a “Real Man?” Boys and men show the world parts of themselves that others define as manly. My initial reaction to Jackson Katz’s, “Tough Guise: Violence, Manhood and American Culture,” movie is I truly believe that video games and movies are a big part of violence.

Most people let society shape who they are and stick with the standards they are given. The stronger individuals don't let society rule them. Society shapes us by influencing the expectations of women and showing us false and true perceptions in one's identity.

Tough Guise 2 is a documentary that focuses on the ways in which American culture uses videos games, movies, advertisements, and other sources of media, to force ideas about masculinity and manhood. Not only in America, but cultures across the world how high rates of “violent masculinity,” which means that men are resorting to violence in order to maintain respect and demand power. If they do not conform with societies expectations of what it is to be a man, they put themselves at risk of being shamed and no longer fitting this societal idea of “manhood”. Using gender stereotypes and schemas, as well as the gender role strain theory, I will focus on how these ideas connect with the ideas in the film, and how culture is one of the leading cause

Traditionally, the upbringing of boys and girls define the way one will act in the world as men and women. Throughout a person’s lifetime many defining factors will influence who he/she becomes and how he/she views him/herself. The films Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women, by Jean Kilbourne (2010), and Tough Guise 2: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, by Jason Katz (2013), have portrayed extensive knowledge on the proper way boys and girls should act according to societal norms. The videos take a standpoint on opposing the way men and women are supposed to be seen as masculine or feminine traditionally and express the need for change. The authors of these films have

Does someone's dressing affect the way people treat them or look at them? In two article the authors explain their main argument, that muslim covering does not hold any threat against other people and that they should not be banned for many reasons that they explain throughout the text. The first article is “Veiled Intentions: Don’t Judge a Muslim by her Covering “ by Maysan Haydar, the author explains that veiling is not oppressive, and that the practicing of covering a woman's hair and body's is their choice and it is not oppressed by men in their culture it is also not something negative to look upon of. While in the other article “Veiled Threats?” by Martha Nussbaum she goes against claims to ban burqas because she argues that banning

Society is changing in the aspect of becoming more accepting and recognizing that although the sex of a person is biologically determined at birth, gender is a more fluid concept. Ones physical traits don’t determine a gender but ones personal beliefs, thoughts and emotions do. Social constructs are a subjective matter because each person is allowed to have their own attitude or mindset on certain situations, making their thoughts right in their own way. However, subjective social constructs of males and females and how they portray themselves have been enlightened in the recent years. Our culture today is more sensitive to the idea of accepting individuality and the characteristics or interests that makes people different and unique. Allowing people the freedom and acceptance of creating ones own identity, having an open mind, is one of the largest ways society has been changing throughout recent years. Along with society becoming more sensitive to the people, people in return feed off this change and have become more cautious and guarded, taking advantage of how they can evoke controversy or to get what they want. An example of people becoming more sensitive is the thought of assistance, such as gestures or chivalry, as a threat to a person’s independence. That a kind act actually has an underlying meaning such as manipulating a person and threating their self-sufficient abilities.

Gender roles often have disastrous consequences for people who struggle to fill their assigned stereotype. Last Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon had a special showing of a new film, The Mask You Live In, that focuses on how society’s narrow definition of masculinity can cause more harm than good.

As one looks through society, one starts to see many cracks and loopholes where one set of standards does not apply the same way for men as it does to women, and vice versa.

Each day, violence is pushed on children, teenagers, and adults. Yet we as a society continue to overlook the issue. We fail to ask ourselves the important questions. Why are there so many mass shootings, why are there so many unjustified murders, or why are men using masculinity as an excuse to become more aggressive towards woman sexually, and also towards men who don’t display what our modern cultures and movies tell us is manly? I believe that we don’t ask these questions not because we don’t want to hear the answers, instead because glorified ferocity has become a normal part of our everyday lives. So much so, that we think it’s just the way life is. After watching Tough Guise 2 it becomes clear that although violent action is the end result, our true problem lies within the horrible messages our movies present to us.

We are currently living in a society where nearly every aspect of a person’s day is based whether or not he or she qualified inside the “norm” that society has created. Particularly, masculinity and femininity norms have a huge impact

The people that are to create the principals of justice have to be fair and equal themselves. This is to avoid unbiased principals that will benefit the creators of them. The veil of ignorance is the idea of the initial situation is central to the whole theory and other basic notions are defined in terms of it. This just means that the groups that are choosing the principals will lack key information that would lead to unfair decision making. They deciders would not know where they stand in society or what their own goals and life plans are. They also would not know what generation they are or what society they take part in. This makes it seem impossible to get fair and sufficient results because most people cannot ignore their life goals or

We live in a society with rigid gender roles and expectations as to how people are supposed to be, based completely on their sex. (Benokraitis) Women are expected to be the housewife, take care of the kids, and on top of all that they need to look good doing it. Men are the