SUPA Writing 105

    Documentaries are a very niche form of expression, one that doesn't always resonate well with everyone.  I, being one of those people, had a difficult time finding Op-Docs, or at least titles that seemed captivating enough to delve into.  However, I did find two pretty enjoyable ones that had quite intriguing titles,  The first one being Arctic Boyhood  and Santa is a Psychedelic Mushroom.  While the latter seems to be quite an inappropriate idea, it was actually very informative on the origins of Santa Claus. Arctic Boyhood     If you were to ask a majority of people around the world what they believed the lifestyle of someone who lives in the Arctic Circle, I guarantee many would assume it is simply ice-fishing and that's about it.  Though, these Arctic peoples have lives just as complex and quite varied from a person who lived in a city their whole life.  This Op-Doc followed a young Greenlandic Inuit boy who was ma...

     Toxic masculinity, a very prominent feature of modern American culture, has been a constant and relentless issue since its inception.  The idea that a man has to prove, through violence and anger, that he is indeed a man.  Over time, the problem in our country has gotten increasingly worse, but now is the time to truly combat this problem.       In Tough Guise 2,  Jackson Katz explains how a history of violent stories. told through folklore and film, has shaped the masculine identity of men.  These past stories have given out the idea that men have to be big and strong and "manly" to be a "real man."  The ways that these ideas are expressed, however, have consistently become more violent and full of anger.  Another compounding factor into toxic masculinity is how our society berates men, through feminine insults like "bitch", "pussy", or even just calling them a woman.  These types of insults have had a devastati...