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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The whole thing is so predictable. This is a form of sexism that is so mainstream that people don't even blink their eyes when they learn the Duke lacrosse team hired a stripper. In a perfect world, that would not be sexist. But this is a world where one in four college women are sexually assaulted and women can't walk on campus at night because of the threat of violence from men.
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That puts intense pressure on the victim to withdraw from the case. For a lot of victims, this is not worth it.
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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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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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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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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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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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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.