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[film clip] We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.

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[film clip] Never show weakness.

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The only pain that matters is the pain you inflict.

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[t.v. clip] It's the roughest and toughest show on TV.

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The American Gladiators.

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[film clip] You gotta out tough people when you get down there.

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It's man on man down there.

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[t.v. clip] Police say boys ages thirteen and eleven were arrested

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near the school carrying guns and wearing camouflage.

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[News clip] Three million American women

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are battered in their homes every year. More than four thousand...

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Can't find a better man...

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[film clip, Wizard of Oz] [Wizard] Oz has spoken!

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[Dorothy] Who are you?

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[Wizard] I am the great and powerful Wizard of Oz

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[Dorothy] You're a very bad man.

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[young man] A real man is physical

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[young man] Strong

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[young man] Independent

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[young man] Powerful

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[young man] Physical

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[young man] Intimidating

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[young man] Strong

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[young man] Independent

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[young man] In control

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[young man] Rugged

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[young man] Scares people

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[young man] Powerful

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[young man] Respected


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[young man] Hard

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[young man] A stud

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[young man] Athletic

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[young man] Muscular

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[young man] A real man is tough

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[young man] Tough

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[young man] Tough

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get called if you don't measure up:

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[young man] You get called a pussy

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[young man] A bitch

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[young man] A fag

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[young man] Queer

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[young man] Soft

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[young man] You're a little momma's boy

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[young man] Emotional

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[young man] Girly

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[young man] Wimp

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[young man] Bitch

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[young man] Queer

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[young man] You get called weak

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[young man] Wuss

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[young man] Sissy

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[young man] Fag

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[young man] Fag

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[young man] Fag

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[young man] You're a fag

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against women in our society,

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but also those men who are violent,

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or who have taken on the tough guise -


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This is true for other areas as well.

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Asian American, Native American, etc...

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and not on the dominant group.

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problem of kids killing kids.

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boys killing boys and boys killing girls.

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"All these shootings were done by boys"

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"Why are women? What is going on

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Look at the recent remake of Psycho.

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And people are going to go see it?

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but they've been largely ignored.

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there's a fairly dramatic difference.

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How about pro wrestling?

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bigger and stronger and more rippled.

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Something's going on.

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has changed over the last 20 years.

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As I said something is really going on.

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more muscular and more violent.

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size, strength, and muscularity -

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has changed over the last 50 years.

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...not only is he holding big guns and

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You're letting a girl beat you?

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and there has been a backlash.

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very poorly to some of these changes.

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but I think they should be bigger.

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Do you have hair on your ass?

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a world in which they can feel good

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That is anything but transgressive.

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Howard Stern is no anti-authority rebel.

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could have easy access to the mainstream, right?


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Did you see it? Yes!

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and in fact there was a backlash

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I hope you die of AIDS

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harms the victims, first and foremost.

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But it serves another function as well -

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[film] What do you faggots want?

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then our problems would be solved.

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kick butt when we need to.

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when gays were still in the closet,

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Golly, I'm so impressed!

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Incredibly popular man.

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maybe horse meat before this campaign is over.

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The idea of the John Wayne character,

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We're not seeing the real person.

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You gotta look like a warrior.

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[young man 1] What?

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tough, ruthless, white Italian gangsters.

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Thank you godfather.

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gain a grotesque form of respect.

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by the dominant male peer culture.

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and asserting their sense of manhood.

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shooting was quoted as saying,

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to warn them of unseen dangers.

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just reports it matter of factly.

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normal males acting out violently.

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because they were so normal.

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as a key step in reducing violence.

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"Why are boys behaving in this way?"

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or being a male person in the world.


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The lesson about manhood is clear.

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...and the Undertaker's not budging...

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to size and strength and muscularity.

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These could be your chest.

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These could be your shoulders.

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They just wanna show it off.

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by just looking at one of these.

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watching violent movies.

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are just out of sight in our society.

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We have to ask ourselves why not?

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invisible by making into a joke.

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and sometimes violence.

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phenomenon of teen dating violence.

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in relationships with their girlfriends -

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They musn't see.

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This is Marlboro country.

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We are interdependent.

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[coach] C'mon now. Suck it up now.

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It's man on man down there.

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Is this how you turned out?

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that showing pain or suffering is weak.

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This idea that "I am invulnerable"

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For example look at the phenomenon

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and drug problems, and that these are

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laundry doing, pizza eating kind of night.

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and I'm gonna flirt with them heavily.

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For example, Mark McGwire,

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...which stunned a lot of the reporters

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Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, instead


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were in fact vulnerable.

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healthy we're going to get as a society.

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of healthy manhood and masculinity.

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I mean that scene when they were on

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Hot stuff, I need hot stuff.

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Another example of male vulnerability

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Or look at the example of the great

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thoughtful and intelligent side, but

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From John Lennon in the 1960s

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the superficiality of the tough guise.

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Look at the huge and enduring

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Look at men like the late Kurt Cobain,

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Garth Brooks is incredibly popular

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A house you could make mistakes in,

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and not be just totally killed for it.

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a lot of them are very sensitive,

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Our culture has opened up and become

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and while we might celebrate some of

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can also be seen as the extreme wing

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kinds of lifestyles among men.

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You're terrified of what you might say.

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They all represented peoples who had

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I think we can talk and work with

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It means speaking out

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All of this is gonna take a lot of work.

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choices. For example, we need to

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