Jackson Katz Quotes

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• There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break…
• We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each…
• Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,
• Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
• The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption…
• We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim…
• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
• As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on…
• For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged…
• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
• Men are every bit as gendered as women.
• How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of…
• Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to…
• Language usage always has a political context.
• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun…

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