45 Quotes by Jackson Katz

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.

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

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.

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.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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

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