Jackson Katz quotes
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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 other and stand with women and not against them.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.
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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 is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : Jackson Katz (2006). “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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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.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "I Am Vulnerable Because I’m Disabled, Not Because I’m a Woman" by Erin M. Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2014.
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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.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "Fathers, Sons and Guns : An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner". Interview with Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.
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“Men are every bit as gendered as women.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "Fathers, Sons and Guns : An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner". Interview with Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.
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“Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.
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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 real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.”
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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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“Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "'Senator McMahon' Sounds like an Outlandish WWE Story-Line by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
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“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.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "What to Say to Boys and Young Men About Big Ben" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.
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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.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "DSK’s Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His 'Accuser'" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2011.
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“We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.”
-- Jackson KatzSource : "This Is The Real Problem With Male ‘Strength’", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.
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“Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,”
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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 that silence, and we need more men to do that.”
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