Andrea G. sent us a link to this five-minute peek into Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz’s documentary Wrestling with Manhood, about masculinity and professional wrestling.
Jackson Katz has an earlier documentary, Tough Guise, about masculinity and violence. Here are seven-minutes of excerpts:
See also Gwen’s post on changing ideals of masculinity (measured in guns and cars) inspired by Tough Guise.
For more on masculinity and violence, see our posts about how men’s violence is naturalized or made invisible (here and here), our posts on finding humor in men’s violence (here, here, here and here), and some I’m not sure how to characterize (here, here, here, here, and here).
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
Comments 1
HazelStone — June 19, 2009
Wow, the links between wrestling and hardcore pornography just seem so so clear. Things have changed a lot from the wrestling I watched as a kid. There were hardly any women around the ring back then. I never saw women being degraded and abused like that in the 80s, at least not that I remember. It is just like the escalation in humiliation and sex violence in porn.
Gah!