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Thats what we want to do. we want to give you the information you need to like be able to cry in front of your girlfriend, let her know it is okay when you watch rudy for you to be a man and also at the same time just to pretend like youre listening when she is saying something important. >> that last part is very important. i think overall just the definition of man hood and masculinity for our generation for now is a bit adrift. i think our fathers and grandfathers had a more strong sense of w...

Digesting further below the four people who were already named who knew what. >> another question. should joe paterno still be honored. >> that was penn state responding to the worst scandal in sports history that goes beyond sports into legality, masculinity, the abuse of power and left many lives destroyed. tissue of joe paternos legacy being destroyed is minimal by comparison. steve this is personal four as a long time penn state fan, now ex-penn state fan, now hearing them respond after judg...

The church and hip-hop have a lot in common. a guy says hes going out with jesus and his 12 guys, my disciples over women, now this is my bows boys over women. now your both homophobic but before you have examples of men loving men without your permission, now when you name it it becomes more complicated. it is a real challenge to the colds of masculinity and the colds of definition within hip-hop. >> you and i both love hip-hop and politics and love the way they engage with each other. maybe we...

That challenges the gender identity, masculinity of whats its built. its up close when you talk about frank ocean with such a beautiful voice and powerful presence within hip-hop itself. i think it will challenge the hip-hop stars to say you came out for obama, can you come out r a man who came out for his own freedom. we all know there, there are a lot more gay people who are famous and rap stars in the game who are operating in closets of secrecy and deception. >> part of what you just said, m...

And that eventually they would recover. they never anticipated being out of work one year, two years, sometimes up to 2 1/2 years. what we discovered is i guess what you would call almost a slow-motion disappearing. that these people are isolated and theyre disappeared. their neighbors dont even know whats really happened to them. sometimes theyre afraid to tell family members. theres a tremendous amount of shame. people internalize this kind of message that they blame themselves. they think the...

Still alive. thats the kind of psychic deterioration, and speaking of masculinity and being the head of the family, that goes on. >> wow. and did you see a different response between the men and the women that you profile d? >> well, thats a good question. in one family, the woman, regina, really -- nick and regina, regina expressed much more freely her rage and her anger. she also turned to her faith, to the church, more than her husband, who seemed to be more paralyzed by the entire situation....

Your family. so when a man legal cause man l doesnt have a job for a long period of time, what happens to his sense of masculinity? >> thats a good question. i think its basically decimated. its a process that happens in slo-mo, unlike in katrina or an earthquake, this is a kind of slow-motion disaster film. and you see men -- i mean, heres a story that starts the film and is close to the end of a character who is almost like jobe. went through so many -- thats a picture of him. went through so ...

Of thing. >> thats funny because i dont think of you as a particularly repressed individual. >> im not. im not. im not. and even still, i think it is a very feminized language to generalize a little bit and i wonder if david and betty would agree with that, it is a bit of a feminized language when you enter the therapy, the therapeutic situation or experience and sometimes men are, like, you know, americans go to france and dont know the language. >> exactly. i would agree with that. and in spea...

Masculinity, colonel allen west who served his country heroically in the united states military is attacked very regularly and very harshly. >> listen to what he says. he makes comments that are unbelievable. allen west is the most -- >> i agree. so does the president of the united states from time to time. >> great to have all of you with us tonight. appreciate your time. thank you. mitt romney uses a visit to wawa to try to seem like a normal guy, but the crowd didnt buy it. well have the la...

A puppy, no one believes it. rick perry went hunting somewhere that had the "n" word on a rock, and people said, oh, thats not racist, hes just having some fun. >> the "n" word on the rock thing, just to get back to that for a moment, that was a piece of property that rick perrys fathers day had bought. that thing was on the rock before rick perrys father bought it and he never erased it. of course he should have. >> okay. >> first of all, you mentioned war. we have been at war with black mascul...