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| The Bro Code: a new documentary from MEF |
The Media Education Foundation recently announced their newest documentary, The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men. The MEF makes some very good documentaries aimed at educating people to become more media literate–which is one of the most important cultural issues of our time, in my opinion.
Men are not born devaluing women, or objectifying them, or loathing them to the point that the worst possible insult is to be called feminine. No, men (and women) learn these attitudes from a culture that constantly reinforces the supremacy of the male and closely polices masculinity (the recent “Man Up!” ads from Miller Lite come to mind, as do the less-recent calls from some female politicians that their male counterparts, again, “Man up!”).
Here’s the trailer:
I’m planning to watch The Bro Code (you can watch a free preview of the full-length film on MEF’s website) and check back in with my thoughts. Has anyone watched it yet? What do you think?
I went to the site to see about downloading the movie or watching it on cable or something. You can buy the DVD – FOR $125-250 DOLLARS! For a DVD! Holy shitballs! Come on now.
The trailer for Miss Representation has been out there for a while now too, and I haven’t been able to find anyplace I can watch the whole thing. Documentary filmmakers should probably make their work more accessible if they want people to actually see it.
I heard about this on the RH Reality Check podcast, by the way.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/10/23/the-republican-primary-reproductive-rights-bonanza