I am watching Fight Club right now, the movie, which by the way, is one of my favorite films.
But it always makes me think. Why do men need to be so violent? Why do they like force, extreme behaviors, what is it in violence that makes it so charming?
Guys why do you really enjoy boxing, bloodshedding games, war, fights and the rest?
If someone could give me an answer I would be grateful for ever. Cause the only answers I have are not really in favor of you.
Someone?
6 comments:
I used to teach middle school and the boys had a compulsive need to be physical...it's healthy for them to wrestle and play hard. As they get older they have fewer and fewer outlets for this need to be physical. Sometimes it's repressed and acts out as extreme violence, rape, road rage, etc.
That's just my take on it but what do I know, I'm just a girl.
It trickles down from prior generations of aggression and machismo, marking territory..much of it stemming from dads who feel it necessary to toughen us up so we're not "soft". Men have also traditionally taken advantage of their physical strength, naturally being born and developing bigger muscles. BUt that strength and the attitude is slowly atrophying. With metro sexual men sprouting all over the planet, and heroin chic and sensitivity for men, the tables are slowly turning. Look at Jennifer Garner and Sarah Gellar. Now THEY kick some ass. Nowadays life gets so hung up in icons more than ever that - put enough tough, female thugs who at the same time use their brains and are successful, the male brawn will shrink back into it's own vagina.
And I've seen plenty of female road-ragers Alannah. And don't worry, as men are becoming women there will soon be a female majority in US govt.
Um....did I ever say women aren't violent? No shit we get road rage...we get every kind of rage that men get.
Ok, Ok. I get it. Women have the same emotions as men and the other way around. Why caint we all just git along?
oh goodness. I'm sorry Elena. I get carried away. I apologize if I wrote inappropriate content on your blog. I was commenting, debating with Alannah, who I know - forgetting that I don't really know you, and just realizing that I have trouble filtering what I say sometimes. Oops!?
J you have nothing to apologise for. Being able to express yourself is one of the biggest gifts and I am not the one that is going to take that away from anybody. This would be such a huge responsibility and I am not willing to take it. My liberal veins will stop beating.
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