National Conversation

I just read an article by Sut Jhally. The article was published online and it was called The National Conversation in the Wake of Littleton is Missing the Mark. Its fantastic. I understood so much out of it. Take a look at the article:
National Conversation

What I learned from this is that the killings in the high school in Littleton were not just caused by those two boys, but also the environment they are around. Indirectly, movies, tv shows, and culture was the cause of the killings. Its our culture that tells us that "men have to be aggressive, physical, and violent". Hegemonic masculinity, which is part of what our society believes, is that men have to be tough, have power, and take authority. Now, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two seniors that conducted the massacre, may have been acting out of what our media brings us. They weren't physically big, which might be a reason to why they didn't fit in, but they had weapons. Weapons are deadly, weapons are dangerous, and weapons give authority and power. When you see Sylvester Stallone shooting around in Rambo and Bruce Willis well built in Die Hard, every boy wants to be like them. And then with the culture saying that men have to be strong and powerful, guys take that as pressure and actually act like that in order to fit in. Maybe that is what the two boys were doing. Trying to fit in.