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Submitted by mrh13188 on December 7, 2005
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Males, Media, and Violence
Why are American men so violent? Why are our crime rates higher than any other countries and why is such a disproportionate percentage of the violence and crime committed by men? One has to begin to think that there are some major issues with the men in our society and the culture in which they grew up in, but my question is; why are American men so violent? Is it the movies we watch? The games we play? The music we listen to or the role models we look up to? There is no single cause and affect answer. Media as a whole is responsible for the high violence rates among men in our society. Rather then blaming a violent video game or movie for the behavior you have to look at the media from a broad point of view. Understand the affect that the media has upon our society and how it can influence us.
Now I am not trying to use the media as a fall boy, blaming every incident of a man shooting another man or beating his wife on the media. Instead I want to point out that the media portrays a male image of acceptable violence and hyper-masculinity. For a young boy to grow up today the images and icons that he will look up to and see as a role model will probably be more and more like your stereotypical male. Strong, dominating, fearless, emotionless, and controlling just to name a few. When a young boy spends his whole life growing up to this as his idol that is it not hard to believe that they too will adopt some of these personality traits?
In order to begin tackling this question we must first define what the media is. The media I am talking about includes television, movies, music, news, magazines, advertisements, entertainment, and so on. It is any outside medium used to entertain, inform, or influence people. In the United States the media is everywhere. It is almost impossible to avoid it unless you trap yourself in your room. But even there you probably have a poster on your wall and even that is a form of media....
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