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Violence and Males
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John Bozarjian Introduction to Gender Studies Professor Najmi Essay 2 December 7, 2004 Violence and Males In the short film, The Smell of Burning Ants, director Jay Rosenblatt discusses how boy's personalities and attitudes are shaped by fear, authority, and shame during their childhood stage. The movie is a chilling description of why boys are led to act in anger, frustration, and violence. Young boys from early ages are frequently restricted from expressing their emotions and are forced to act in a "masculine" fashion. This pressure to conform to masculinity induced by society and depicted on television screens has led males to be overly-aggressive and lead them to commit many acts of violence. In this essay I will argue how media, athletics, and peer pressure leads males to become more aggressive and violent opposed to females. According to statistics presented by William G. Brozo and Patricia Teri Placker in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult...
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