Violence is in Our Culture

 Violence is very common with boys in our culture.  Violence is defined by using men as the main point and always showing men getting bigger and stronger.  This makes boys think that they need to be bigger and stronger to be more masculine to be a man.  Also, a lot of men are used in movies as being the more violent ones toward anyone or anything and this shows boys that this is what a man does and how they should act.  When in reality it is not how a man has to act but chooses to act.  It is hard for a boy to go around and not see men who are dominate; having a visual of how to act, has a big influence on a young boy because a lot of people learn by watching I think.

I can see this role as positive and negative because if someone sees a man being violent toward someone who is harming them, then it shows a boy how to protect themselves and not let someone harm them.  I can see this being negative in a way that television shows it because if boys get a lot of their information on how to be masculine from television, then it might show it in a wrong way.  Television shows make men look like the bad guys but in a boys mind, it might make them seem like the "badass" guy.

APA relates to my ideas because they say that the violence on television has an effect on children's mental health.  Therefore, saying that by children watching violence on television that it will cause them to become more violent.  I believe that this is true to a point.  Children learn from watching and yes, if a child is interested in violence, then they may be more likely to be violent and since the violent scenes on television are performed mostly by men, then younger boys look up to that.  My ideas also kind of relate to ACLU because I do not think that violence should be blocked from television because if children do not see it on television, they will most likely see it in the real word.  I strongly believe that a child is able to watch violence on television and not become violent; it also depends on how a parent(s) react to situations.

I grew up watching violence on television and never did anything extremely violent like what television shows.  I also was told when I was younger that being mean or violent was not nice and that it was the wrong thing to do.  My parents told me what was right and wrong instead of not saying anything to me.  I think that since there is so much violence on television that parents need to remind their children the right and wrong things to do to help them realize that you cannot do the things that they see on television.