Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

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22. The media is such a huge part of so many problems in this country.

The point that he makes about how men victims are predominately victims of other male violence, reminds me of Andrea Dworkin's comment:

I think that men are very afraid of other men. That is something that you sometimes try to address in your small groups, as if if you changed your attitudes toward each other, you wouldn't be afraid of each other.

But as long as your sexuality has to do with aggression and your sense of entitlement to humanity has to do with being superior to other people, and there is so much contempt and hostility in your attitudes toward women and children, how could you not be afraid of each other? I think that you rightly perceive -- without being willing to face it politically -- that men are very dangerous: because you are.