Jackson Katz
Jackson Katz
Jackson T. Katzis an American educator, filmmaker, and author. He is a creator of a gender violence prevention and education program entitled Mentors in Violence Prevention, which has been actively marketed to the U.S. military and various sporting organizations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth7 May 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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Social change is a messy process. We need more men with the guts to stand up and say abusive behavior is abusive behavior, and it's not right, and it doesn't make me less of a man to point that out.
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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 for ideological and partisan purposes.
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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He's motioning to the audience as if asking them, 'Should I do it?' And they're cheering him on.
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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 isolated incidents?
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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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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,
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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 - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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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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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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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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Language usage always has a political context.
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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 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.