Girls, on the other hand, are told not to act this way because it is “unfeminine” in nature.Īt the end of the film, director Ellen Snortland appeared to answer any questions from the audience. It talks about how beginning in early childhood, young boys are encouraged to fight and behave aggressively.
The documentary challenges the gender binary and the common stereotypes revolving around how men and women are expected to behave. The documentary is a compilation of interviews, footage from travelling to different countries and empowering scenes where women learn how to defend themselves. They visited North Dakota, Mexico and Jerusalem as they conducted classes and workshops to teach women how to fight to put an end to physical violence. The film was written and directed by Ellen Snortland, who travelled the world with her crew to teach women about self-defense. This powerful documentary revolves around self-defense for women, and how important it is to challenge the patriarchal norms that pressure women into being submissive. On Wednesday evening, folks gathered in Slayter Auditorium for the screening of “Beauty Bites Beast”. In the process, we might reduce violence against both sexes.In a world where women are discouraged to fight, it takes only the efforts of a few individuals to help change this way of thought. Instead of teaching women and girls about their inner tigress, our time might be better invested in teaching both boys and girls not to be bullies.
The best we could do for boys and girls is kill the messages that make them antagonists. The girls in my neighborhood have self-esteem oozing out of their toenails, for which I cheer them boys, the majority of whom have far less confidence than their female counterparts, are as likely to be bullied by girls – verbally, if not physically – as by bigger, stronger boys.Īdvancing the message that bully-boys are after victim-girls probably does more to fulfill the prophecy than any so-called educative efforts by the women who occupy Snortland’s world. I admit, I don’t hang with violent men, but I do with boys and girls – lots of them – and have yet to observe a preponderance of bullying behavior among boys or many girls who have sworn to victimhood. Whatreally stopped my breath, though, was Snortland’s suggestion that the best hope for curbing violence is teaching boys not to be bullies and girls not to be victims. Nevertheless, the premise of Snort- land’s story, reflected in so many others, is that men are inherently bad and women inherently good. But a quick review of the facts shows that children are abused more often by their mothers than by their fathers male abuse of children more often is executed by boyfriends women initiate violence in relationships as often as men, though they usually lose in the end.
Clearly, women in abusive relationships need protection, and children of abusive parents need rescuing.
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