Males, onthe other hand, are strong, aggressive and powerful. The guidelines for a man are clearand spelled out through a males societal functions. Men fight. Men fight wars. Men playsports, which are undoubtably violent. Men hold jobs. Men support their families.Movies portray men as the stronger sex. Rarely, though there are a fewexceptions, the male is seen as the smarter, stronger, better sex. Men are action heroes. Men run countries. Men are sports heroes. And in the movies, women are reliant uponthese strong men.All of this is expected of your average man. He is expected to live up to thestandards set forth by our culture and evident in our history of colonialism, exploitation,oppression and imperialism. These expectations are strongly reinforced by theaforementioned playthings which are introduced to a male at a very, early, tender age. To reiterate, males are strong and agressive; females simply are not. Throughvirtually all the mediums of a didactic nature that we offer as a society (television, theentire entertainment industry, language, government institutions, public school text books,and history to name a few) the message is clear.The two gun men from Littleton experienced ridicule at the hands of the athletes attheir school. [They] fought with [the] athletes who ridiculed them. (Dallas MorningNews) Eachs very manhood was attacked. There were repeated, documented, incidentsof problems between the Trench Coat Mafia (of which the gunmen were a known part of)and the athletes at Columbine High School. According to the Dallas Morning News, afew months ago, the Trench Coat Mafia and the jocks agreed to fight each other on abaseball field.As a man, what recourse do you have to defend yourself against ridicule andteasing. (The exact nature of the teasing is unknown. I was unable to locate any specificinformation concerning what words were exchanged. I suspect, though, that many a barbmay have included assaults on th...
