The Point of the Film (Photo created by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office) "Tough Guise 2" is a film about violence and how it closely relates to masculinity as a concept. The film states that violence is primarily a men's issue and that American society is unable to properly view the issue of violence in America in that way. Scapegoats, Distractions, and Language Shifts The film mentions how media outlets look to blame violent video games, films, drugs, etc., as the primary cause of violence instead of masculinity. The film states that we generally fail to focus on men's issues in any meaningful way. Media outlets will oftentimes imply that violence is "genderless" as a means to prevent/distract people from examining violence as a men's issue. Or if the media does focus on a group, it is never explicitly white, heterosexual men. The media only involves race, for example, if a minority was involved in the violence it is covering. American men a
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