Kristine's blog about the movie

In the movie “Boyz N the Hood” there are shown different kinds of masculinities. The positive ones are: a man care of family, going to army and respect to friends, but the negative ones are: men are being too brave, aggressive, strong ready to fight at any moment. These characteristics fill the men’s characters as movie continues; moreover, a man taking care of family and children separately is seen in the scene where Tre’s father talks to him about being bad, when Tre wants to go and shoot people who killed his friend. Another example of males being aggressive is presented in essay written by Michael A. Messner “Becoming 100% Straight” when he talks how boy friends spending a lot of time together are becoming too close and as a result one of the boys aggressively rejected the other one and began making fun of him because he does not want to be rejected by the other boys. Besides, the negative characteristics are shown in men’s everyday life because even when they go out with friends men need to be masculine to protect their prides. Although in the movie there are such scene where a man cries, that moment shows his masculinity because he is not a shame to do it in front of the women. The part of the males masculinity can cause problems because men often time do not think about solution caused by that kind of the action.
The race plays great examples in this movie explaining the life of the African-American. Furthermore, it most of the time show the attitude for life from different people; like the African-American usually would decide more emotional decisions instead white person would take different approach to solve the problems wordy. The life of the hood is represented highly negative and that is the reason even community thinks that society wants that black people kill each other by putting more liquor and gun stores around the region. Race usually have different culture experiences as it is similarly with unlike countries.
Women is presented as a second plan character in the movie as to support first plan characters males. The gender roles presented in the movie regarding to the females show that women is not the dominant because when a female intervenes in the men talk, she is called a bitch. The sexual settings that are represented in the movie show the identities of each character’s role; similar self finding are represented in the essay of Mimi Schippers in the quote: “ …, sexuality not only defines and organizes identities, but is also an organizing feature of face-to-face interaction and of larger institutional and cultural setting”. Ladies in the movie are shown very feminine because they do all women’s job; for example, cook for a man, take care of the children and are precious to men. It is seen in the scene when Tre comes back home and starts to cry, but his girlfriend gives him a hag and takes care of him as lady should do in that kind of the moment. Women are suppose to be careful and understandable like it is in the movie and it tells that the more females take care of their second halves the more respect and attentions they will get from males.