Okay...that deserves some explanation.
I made that video as a reference to a running gag commonly used by comic book review Linkara when I turned 18. The point was to punch a wall offscreen, pull something back in the fist that punched, and anything can happen from there.
The origin of this joke comes in two parts. First off, Linkara was reviewing the horrible comic Superman at Earth's End, wherein Superman fights a robot stating that while the robot is a mere machine, "I am a man!"
But the other part of the origin definitely lies in not the difference between robot and living being, but being a masculine man an anything else.
Masculinity is being rough, tough, getting away with what you did without a care, and being the all-around superior being among hundreds of other things. But how much of it comes naturally? Sure, the male physiology contains more androgen, which in itself is a hormone that can contribute to aggressiveness. But females can contain aggressiveness as well, even savagery, just as easily.
I personally think that men have always been given a way in society to be superior to women, and that without any of those ways we males would be considered weak and pathetic compared to the female half of the species.
While I find this viewpoint to be complete bullsh*t, there has always been some way men are superior to women, and the ways in particular change over time. Women being the ones staying at home cooking and cleaning and keeping house while the men are out at work or whatever they might be doing, women not being allowed simple rights such as voting or contract-making, women being forced into prostitution, a noblewoman being the prize for whichever nobleman earns her etc.
Now, it's less sociopolitical and more societal. Men are overall taller and stronger than women, on average, so their prowess is assumed to be greater. Men take the leading roles in films and shows more often than women. Men are almost always shown to keep their sensitive emotions from pouring out, and when they do pour it out it's usually assumed that there is a mental disorder or disease involved that makes it happen.
I think that it's unfortunate there wasn't a longer period of time between equal rights between genders coming in, and the depictions of women in media beginning to arise. If the transition between political and social equality were given a longer time to properly evolve before things such as radio shows and television became the norm, I believe this would be less of an issue.
