Assignment Problem: watch the Tough Guise movie and respond to one of these prompts with a minimum of three hundred words.
1. What does Katz mean by the term "tough guise"?
2. What are some of the most common gender-neutral pronouns that get used to describe perpetrators of violence?
3. Why do you think people in news media so often use gender-neutral (not talking about the gender of the perpetrator) terms to talk about perpetrators?
4. What does the culture teach young men and boys about what it means, and what it takes, to be a real man? And what does it teach them about what it means when you don't live up to this ideal?
5. Does Katz's observation that men and boys are responsible for the vast majority of violence in America imply that most men and boys are violent? Why or why not? Explain.
6. How do concepts explored in the film inform our understanding of violence and victimization in criminal 'justice?