Masculinity in popular culture

I find I learn best about popular culture through YouTube videos. There are so many videos available involving popular culture and certain ideas that have to do with popular culture on the Internet. The video I chose to examine above is called, Masculinity in Popular culture. This video discusses how the men being portrayed in our sports games, movies, television is teaching domination and aggression.   The average young boy spends 40 hours a week watching television and 15 hours a week playing video games. All of the entertainment they are watching are portraying different male archetypes. You have the strong silent guy who is always in control, the hero type guy who is engaged in violence 24/7, the thug who is violent, and last but not least the “man-child” who is immature and funny. The video discusses how media images have an affect on these little boys who are watching these shows, movies, etc. Our young boys look to these men and think this is what they should be; how they should act, and how they should look. The men our children, brothers, cousins are watching are fictional characters that they should not look up too. Another thing the video discusses is the United States army's use of training some if their individuals for battle by video games because of the similarities. Should these little boys be getting ready for battle? The violence our male television characters and our video game characters show should not be available to our young boys. I recommend if you haven't seen the video "Tough Guise" to go out and watch it because it also touches base on this topic.