Jackson Katz Quotes

#1. 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 is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

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#2. Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

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#3. 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 - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

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#4. A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

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#5. In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

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#6. Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

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#7. 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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#8. The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

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#9. The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

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#10. Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.

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#11. Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

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#12. In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

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#13. 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 artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

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#14. Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

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#15. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

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#16. Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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#17. During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

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#18. In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

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#19. 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 pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

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#20. We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

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#21. The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

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#22. 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 for ideological and partisan purposes.

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#23. If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

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#24. Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

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#25. 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 isolated incidents?

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#26. 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 that silence, and we need more men to do that.

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#27. 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 other and stand with women and not against them.

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#28. Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

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#29. Language usage always has a political context.

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#30. 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 college campuses.

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#31. Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

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