Tough Guise.....

This film is very interesting and brought up many points that people just do not seem to think about when we learn about violence. What I thought was interesting was the point about the media's influence on our impressions from what we read or see on television. I have been trying to find articles that specifically name the victims in the headlines and keep coming up short. I think about the boys that did all the killings and wonder about the victims part and what if they had been nicer people and not have caused so much trouble. Can we blame the schools for not recognizing bullies and noting their aggressive behavior towards the less than average individuals? Or do we blame the parents of the perpetrators for not noticing that their children had an arsenal of weapons and the minds to use it. It is a blame game that has been going on for decades and is not about to stop. I am just glad that Sociologists are looking at the outlying reasons that can be causing our kids to grow up in a not so happy world.

Dreams do not make it real, do they?

While I was watching this video I was brought back to my youth and reminded of the videos I grew up watching. I thought about what the narrator was saying and found myself disagreeing with his message. He kept calling the women in the videos prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and dominatrix's like that was what they really were. I kept telling my television that they were not. That they were just portraying these images because they were paid to do so by the person who was making the video. I did not watch them thinking I wanted to be like them. It was entertainment. The thought that men do make videos to attract their audience is not surprising. This is why we go to movies and watch stupid shows on television. It is all about the mighty dollar and what is going to make a lot of it for these people.
When I was a teenager I knew most rock stars were sluts and that they usually liked their women dressed in as little as possible and doing things I would not like my daughter doing today. Yet I still watched. I still cleaned my house to their music, and went to their concerts hoping to get a closer look at them in all their glory. I wonder what videos would be like in the 80's if they were made like the early ones in the 50's or was it 60's. I doubt that I would have wanted to watch them. So should we crucify the men for being smart enough to figure out what would make them the most money or secretively wish I could have been the one to think of it.