DESCRIPTION:
Right
from the first second of this short movie, the sexism was displayed. Men with big muscles and tans, with ripped
shirts were dancing with women who were half naked, and blonde. The typical stereotypes of a “sexist” world
came onto the screen before the title of the film did. Along with these men dancing with undressed
blonde bombshells, there were music videos of the typical rich man/rapper, who
shows off their money, their cars, and their sexy women. As the film moved forward, the director and
narrator Thomas Keith, comes onto the screen.
Keith explains how the world has taught him, as a man than they are the
more superior. During the course of the
movie, key factors and key examples of sexist men were shown. People that came up a lot would be the men of
the hit music television Jersey Shore.
Ronnie was quoted on there saying how all he wants is “Bitches and
Booze,” and that he “isn’t going to fall in love at the Jersey Shore.” While another star from the show, “The
Situation,” was quoted saying that numbers did not mean anything and the more
is better. The Bro Code, also depicts
how women are looked at as objects and show things instead of people. Another example of this is a true story of a
15-year-old girl being raped repeatedly by 10 or more boys in a public
school-yard. And no one did anything
about it but watch. The little girl was
admitted into the hospital, and stayed in intensive care for days. Another great point that was brought up was a
movie clip featuring Tom Cruise. Tom is
holding a seminar where he explains how the man is the almighty, and should
always be taken care of, and in charge.
He then precedes to make humping motions and moaning showing that he is
in control of the women he is having sex with.
He screams things like “respect the cock,” “I am the one who says yes,
no, now, where!” “we are men!” Going along with these quotes from Tom
Cruise’s character, The Bro Code shows how men think they are in control of
when and where women have sex. This is
where colleges were interviewed and blatantly stated that they have been to a
party where girls were roofied, and taken advantage. Someone even said this exact quote “if women
were to be raped they should just sit back and enjoy it,” this shocked me, that
anyone could even think this way of such a horrible crime. Watching this movie actually brought up anger
in my body. I could feel for these
women’s stories, and it was sad but I sometimes agreed 100% with the things
being said.
CONNECTIONS:
I
have to say that it was kind of difficult to find connections from the articles
we have read that were different from articles I connected to the last movie I
watched. So I hope it is okay that I am
reusing some of the other articles I did last time.
For
the first article connection I made, I chose Privilege, Power, and Difference. I did not even have to
look through my folder filled with articles, I knew I was going to use this
from the beginning. For the obvious
reasons of men and the richer thinking that they are better and more superior
to women or poor people. In the movie,
it was said over and over again how men are more superior than women, and that
they are better and smarter and so on and so forth. In the article not only does it say that men
are the superiors, but that rich white men were. This article takes the ideas of the movie to
an entirely different level. In the
film, The Bro Code, it was said how the rappers music videos and the people on
reality TV shows are the envied, and in the article, it says how the people
with nice cars and huge mansions are envied.
While
watching The Bro Code, there was one specific issue that came up a couple of
times that I both agreed with and also saw in a past article. It was the issue of being homosexual. The Bro Code says that gay men are mostly
more hidden, and take longer to come out of the closet. The article, Oppression, explains how some people are stuck, and cannot
be true to them because some are scared, some are worried, and some are
unclear. The people who were interviewed
in the movie either were straight and made fun of gay men, or were gay and told
us quickly about their struggle. In the
film, men were portrayed to always “get with” women, and that was the norm. If this was not done, they were seemed to be
as weird, causing them to be made fun of.
In Oppression, Marilyn Frye, she mostly speaks about women, but I just
flipped the gender for this occasion. I
personally felt bad for the gay men who spoke in this documentary, and anyone
who feels that they cannot be themselves due to bullies or the peer pressure of
being normal.
Finally,
for my third connection from the movie to an article read in class was …..
Going
to come back to this after reading more articles!!!
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