Today's video

Today's post is going to be relatively short, as I don't really know what I think about the video in class today. What I do know is that when we talked about the "inferences" science has to make sometimes pale in comparison with what the movie talked about today. At least with science, the majority of the things that are inferred are later proven or dis proven. For example, at the beginning of the movie, he talked about the number of males assaulting women vs. the number of females assaulting males. It was something like 95% of males vs. 5% of females. First of all, how many women are even able to commit acts of physical violence against men. For example, if some girl is walking down the street, I'd say she has a very limited amount of male targets, if any, on that same street which would be someone she would want to mess with. Vs. the male aspect, which is that any average male, would most likely have no problem with an average female. This is still not a good thing and still definitely shows a masculinity problem, however the percentages of attacks are just not the way to get the point across in this instance. Not only that, but as another problem of masculinity, how many males are even going to report a statistic of being attacked or raped by a woman? In the case of rape, I would argue that the .2% of the people that reported being raped by a woman would probably be the only .2% of the male population that would even report being raped.

Another thing I strongly disagree with, and think was taken way to far and out of context was the distinction of Rocky fighting Apollo Creed. In no way was that a black vs. white deal. Rocky was by no means a middle class working citizen in his fights. In his fights against Apollo Creed, he was a thug off the streets that collected money for the loan sharks. Apollo Creed was the rich upper class citizen. Not only that, but even after the first fight they were friends, not publicly at first, but when no one was around they were. I think that was a HUGE inference made that was not reflective of the movie at all.

Lastly, and I'm sure we're going to talk about this is class is the issue of testosterone. As Celia said, once it hits the brain it's estrogen. Ok. Why is it that when someone experiences roid rage, its a result of high levels of testosterone? Why is it that the most violent, most aggressive animal on the planet is the bull shark, which also has the highest level of testosterone of any animal in the animal kingdom? I really can't wait to have this discussion and talk about why these facts aren't really relevant to the difference in aggression and violence from male to female!