Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue

Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called "women's issues." But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men's issues -- and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all -- women and men -- to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change.

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I'm gonna share with you

a paradigm shift in perspective

on the issues of gender violent sexual assault domestic violence relationship

abuse sexual harrassment sexual abuse of children

that whole range of issues that are referred to in shorthand as gender

violence issues

he'd been seen as women's issues that's some good men help out with

but I have a problem with that frame and I don't accept it i don't cds as women's

issues that's some good man help out with

In fact, I've been argued that these are men's issues

first and foremost now obviously.

Obviously, there also women's issues so I appreciate that the carling

gender violence a women's issues is part of this problem

for a number of reasons:

the first is that it gives men an excuse not to pay attention.

A lot of men hit a term women's issues and We end to tune it out meeting today

on the die that's for the girls or that's for the women and a lot of men

literally don't get on the first sentence

As a result, something could ship in our brain is activated

and the neural pathways take our attention in a different direction when

we hear the term

women's issues is also true by the way he word "gender"

is a lot of people hear the word "gender"

and I think it means "women".

So, The hink that gender issues is synonymous with women's issues there's

some confusion about the term "gender"

and assalam illustrate that confusion by way of analogy

so it's talking about race in the US, we hear the word "race" a lot of people

think that means african-american,

latino, asian, american, native american, south

itself the asian pacific islander on and on.

A lot of people when the hear the word "sexual orientation" think it means gay, lesbian or bisexual

and a lot of people when they hear the word "gender" think it means "women".

In each case, the dominant group doesn't get paid attention to.

As if white people don't have some sort of racial identity or belong to some

racial category or construct.

As if heterosexual people don't have a sexual orientation.

As if men don't have the gender.

This is one of the ways that dominant systems maintaining reproduce themselve

which is to say the dominant group is really challenge to event hink about it's

dominance, that's because that's when the key characteristic a power and privileges

the ability to go unexamined lacking introspection