Stereotypes In The Selling Of Masculinity

Throughout the movie it shows many different obstacles Tre had faced, trying to grow up to be successful, meet his fathers expectations, and to also avoid the peer pressure from
Doughboy and Chris to be more involved in the gang related happenings with Doughboy's crew.
In this environment gangs played a huge role, this being another stereotype and relating back to the article from Dr.Nerdlove "The Selling of Masculinity", Dr.Nerdlove makes a point of saying,
"All male life is a struggle of dominance of others." Which is perfectly depicted in this movie.
Gang killings is a good example of how men thought it was essential to kill and make sure that they were not to be messed with. Females

Tre knew who's baby it was as if it was normal to see this baby walking around in the street and returned her home. When returning the baby, the drug addict mother asks Tre for some "rocks" and offered oral sex for any drug that he had. Though this being a stereotype of how women are used for sex it also shows that they control some situations when getting a young minded man to get what they want.
When Ricky died that was the "rock bottom of the movie" where Tre seems to slip at this point in the movie and the pain for his friend makes him think irrationally, but when with
Doughboy and the crew Tre asked him to him to pull over so he could get out of the car. That's the difference between Tre and the people he is surrounded with. That father role is what drove him to make the right situation. This is why a father figure was key for Tre growing up. Getting involved in the revenge would have resulted in him being hunted down and murdered. If
Doughboy and his crew had those father figures to keep them in line growing up maybe could have saved them their lives in the

Tre first instinct is to run from his problems or force physical pain on others. Like back when he was younger and would beat up kids in his grade or would try and be the "funny guy" in the class room. His father makes sure that he turns Tre around for the better when make certain decision that could ultimately change his life. The talk about sex with his father make him scared of the consequences of having sex. Which would be the possibility of impregnating a girl. So he stayed a virgin up until he was eighteen in fear that he would get his girlfriend pregnant and they would have a life growing up like they were at that point. Tre' s father makes a key point in the movie while they were talking about the kind of environment they lived in. How they had gun shops and liquor stores on every corner, that they were put there so they would kill each other. The kind of outlook they had on l ife has changed in some ways with society today. Things are not as a bad as they were but things haven't changed as drastically as they should to make key improvements.
Police brutality really hit home with this movie. The cops pulling over Tre and