4. What does Katz say about how - and why - middle class white men sometimes adopt urban street poses to establish that they're tough? What's he saying about how class and economic status can factor into men's identity and violence?

5. What do you make of the fact that the ideal of women's bodies has gotten smaller and smaller even as the ideal of men's bodies has grown bigger? Do you see our cultural ideals negotiating men's anxieties about women and women's power in the real world?

6. What are some examples Katz gives of men and boys being victims of violence? If men and boys are so often the victims of male violence, why do you think so many people call it male bashing to call attention to men's violence?