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…
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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…
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Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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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…
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We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
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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…
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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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…
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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…
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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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…
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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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…
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Language usage always has a political context.
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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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