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Our culture tends to identify being a man with being strong, adventurous, and not being emotional. We also generalize all women with being too sensitive, weak, and not adventurous even though the majority aren't like this. We especially saw this in the movie we watched Killing us softly 4, the movie showed female models who were all shown in small, submissive positions. Most of the models were not doing anything in the pictures while the male models were shown outdoors being adventurous or doing something in the photos. This sends a bad message to our youth telling them that girls are meant to be less adventurous and not to stand up for themselves. Instead woman should be portrayed as being adventurous and following their dreams.
             Men are shown as being tough, strong, and having no emotions. In the movie we watched called Tough Guise 2 we looked at how our culture causes men to feel the need to be violent and tells men that being violent is just something men do. In my life I have seen this a lot. My cousin is a professional fighter who used to do MMA which is probably the best example of how violence is seen as good and entertaining. While MMA is seen as entertaining and is condoned other martial arts teach self defense and stress that it should only be used as a last resort. On my own I saw a video on YouTube of a Brazilian Jiu Jistu black belt, Rener Gracie, who explains that in most circumstances fighting is avoidable and that fighting should be a last resort. But our culture makes men think that if they don't stand up for themselves they aren't real men. This is something we need to change or violence among men will continue.