The Bro Code: How contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men
Directed by Michael Enriques, Mitch Lemos and Thomas Keith (2011)
Film Review
This documentary explores how for-profit corporate capitalist culture tries to deliberately transform boys into sexist men.
It begins by looking at the role MTV* and other media outlets play in teaching men how to “womanize.” When MTV was first founded in 1981, its major focus was music videos. devoted to playing music videos. In recent years, it has mainly featured reality TV programs about drinking and womanizing, like Jersey Shore and Spring Break. In these and similar shows, the primary role of women is to serve as sex objects and compete for the attention of men.
According to filmmakers, college fraternities go one step further, with their notorious “bros and hos” and “No means yes and yes means anal” parties, to promote a literal rape culture. In this environment, committing date rape (by getting naive women drunk and/or slipping “ruffies”** into their drinks) is considered a rite of passage.
Rape, occurring mainly in freshman women, has reached crisis point on many US university campuses. In 84% of cases, victims know their assailants. College age women are four times more likely to be raped than any other age group, with 56% of college males stating they would commit rape if they thought they could get away with it.
The documentary also blames dysfunctional attitudes towards women on Internet pornography, which is now the main form of sex education for US adolescent males. Internet pornography typically depicts women as sex starved and saying no as a form of flirting. Especially concerning is the extremely popular “Gonzo Porn,” a type of hate porn that glorifies rape. Many college age men are so immersed in Internet porn that they become impotent in face-to-face sexual interactions.
The full film can be seen free on Kanopy.
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