School violence is one of the least discussed  topics that needs to be talked about more. Not just bullying in schools. When a fight happens, people pull out their phone and record it. Doesn’t matter if it is an uneven or fair fight, people just light things up. To figure why these fights happen is by the cause in the beginning. For most, the boys fight by being bullied. All types of bullying which is physical, cyber, verbal, and social. People criticized the small details of people to make them feel better or feel more powerful. This will change lots of people. People who have been bullied have changed the way they are because The “Cooler” group don’t like it or be more manly.Kimmel have written about that whitin Masculinity as Homophobia. It is weird that the strong survive. Then one day, they’re forced to fight, surrounded by people and cameras, and it’s unfair. Then, think why nobody helps me and why the school is not showing this problem. At the end of it all, you can’t tell or ask for help just be a man. The CBC Marketplace tells that 41 percent of teenage boys have been assaulted in high school by a survey. These boys also feel fear of going to school because of the thought of danger. 

26 percent of girls have experienced unwanted sexual contact in their students years and a quarter of them have their first experience in Grade 7.Also by the same survey. Which is a huge problem of safety and security. In episode 4 of Man Enough, it shows that people are terrified to experience this form of act. When they ask for help, they’re ignored and put down for even saying their experience. People don’t believe these horrible stories that occurred in people’s lives. Not only do we need to start believing and helping one another, we need to find ways to stop these acts. We need to make sure that both male and female are affected by this. What is worse than ignoring is bringing back the attacker of the victim to the same atmosphere or area space. No punishment towards their action. It is important not to repeat or be encouraged by these actions. When these happen it causes tension between races too.

Being in a different color skin somehow gives people tension towards them. Make them dangerous just by skin color but if we act like them. Formal, classics, and dressing suitable people lower their standards. Brent Staples wrote about Black men and Public spaces that “the White” give tension towards black men. Reading it gives you psychopath vibes of it, feeling what people think of black men. What a black got to do is change their taste of music, chotes, style, and especially their tone. To view as an “approachable” person. There are related topics like “The skin I’m in” Where a black man has been taken down in front of his family because the cop thought he looked similar to a criminal.  While he doesn’t look at all. Digging deeper  into race, there’s a chapter(13) that Kwan Laford talks about race in terms of masculinity. That talks about the core of it. The whiteness what people want and Canada if you are into that. 

Hockey has also had their fair share of violence which follows the common Hockey rule “The Code” This is a tradition in a hockey game where the player has to fight if they don’t it can lead to lethal injuries. You can help teammates but if it’s a rematch then you can’t stop the fight. Taking down your opponent is the only way to get out, win, or lose for the fight to be handled by the referees. There’s Penalties place for fights but never applied  them in Hockey.There’s no any sorts of gains when there is a fight but so called honor. Now, it is a part of the game.The CBC: The Fifth Estate “The Code” which was hosted by Bob Mckeown that talks about Hockey and it’s violence. It shows that there are players who don’t even play Hockey but know how to fight. How children are picking up these violence, the death of Donald Sanderson, and no one expected to fight in hockey. There is no point in fights, or any course of violence when it comes to Hockey, school or anywhere else. If you want violence then go watch fighting sports. Doing sports has been more aggressive, and these fights shows who goes on top by fighting, not by being the better player. Just like how people try to achieve in fights in schools. Especially for white men who feel powerless to prove something or to gain. Which Kimmel explained on Masculinity as Homophobia. 

Why do men fight in Hockey and what honor they speak off? Hockey is a man’s game, you don’t see many women play this or play with aggressiveness. Men are celebrated by their achievements especially through sports. People who won fights in Hockey actually gain fame for winning the fights or in multiple. Their status and achievements. Being inexpressive and independent, men are taught to be strong, sturdy, and invincible but, people who fight repeatedly don’t last long in the season or their careers because they think they can handle this lifestyle of hockey. Then, when they realized that it’s only getting worse. Aggressiveness and adventurousness is what it means for fights like these. To be able to take physical risks when it comes to fights. Almost every fight in hockey, there’ll be a hand injury and least from that is the head injury. A concussion is an injury to the head that makes the brain able to not function. Which is common to blow to the head and guess what? That’s the only area where the players hit in these fights. These are the risks that the players want to take. Kilmartin explains the full 4 explanations of Anti-femalnity, Status and Achievement, Inexpressiveness and independence, and Adventurous and aggressiveness about masculinity. 

Reference

Jennifer McGuire CBC News ”Why CBC started looking into violence in school”  on October 2019 (1.5331402) or CBC Marketplace S47 E4 “ School Violence: How to fight for safer schools” 

Danielle Kwan Leford “Racialized Masculinities Canada” Chapter 13 

The Code host by Bob Mcleown – March 2010 The Fifth Estate https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2009-2010/the-code

Micheal. S. Kimmel (Masculinity as homophobia ch.10) (Masculinity ch.1) 

Kilmartin (Defining Men’s Studies) Chapter 1