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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz / Educator
Men
Bits
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Language usage always has a political context.
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Language
Political
Usage
Context
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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Concept
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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Media
Perpetuating
Play
Powerful
Social
Establishing
Norms
Role
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In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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Enjoy
Real
Treated
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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Real Life
Degraded
Life Women Real
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Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.
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Boys
Our Society
Way
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We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.
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Men
Violence
Violence Against Women
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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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Sports
Corporate
Honor
Media
Winning
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We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
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Men
Justice
People
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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Accounts
News
School
Shooting
Typical
Mention
Rarely
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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.
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Women
Men
Attention
Calling
Excuse
Gender
Giving
Issues
Pay
Pay Attention
Problem
Violence
Men Women Violence
Lot
Part
Women Men Gender
Women Men Violence
Gives
Issue
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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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Arms
Assault
Concern
Hunting
Rifles
Weapons
Battles
Guns
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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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Gangsta
Masculinity
Rap
Smart
Caricature
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Elect
Respects
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Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
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Familiar
Wwe
Women Enough People
Women Are
Badly
Narratives
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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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Bad Stuff
Free Speech
Response
Suppression
Advocate
Mantra
Repeat
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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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Incidents
Isolated
Merely
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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Good Job
Gop
Mimicking
Presidential
Rhetoric
Romney
Ahead
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Nomination
Reagan
Runs
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Male
Women Men Violence
Victims
Women And Men
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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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Men
Athlete
Believe
Construction
Entitled
Masculinity
Needs
Women Believe Man
Athletes
Being A Man
Cultural
Elite
Women Man Believe
Serve
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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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Glimpse
Ideological
Journalism
Spun
Talk Radio
Draft
Meaning Of
Purposes
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It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.
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Men
Term
Violence
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As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.
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Anti War
California
Exploding
Millions
College Campuses
Conservatives
Governor
Nationwide
Publicly
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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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Men
Children
Powerful
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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.
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Change
Courage
Equality
Strength
Smile
Women
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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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Accused
Binary
Blood
Coverage
Flesh
Media
Media Coverage
Opposition
Accuser
Alleged
Harmed
Longer
Sets
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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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Blood
Media
Violent Acts
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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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Barack
Talk Radio
Alternate
Bin
Dragging
Screaming
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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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Debate
Discussion
Frustrating
Gun
Gun Control
Manhood
Sight
Gun People Control
Contest
Few People
Hidden
Meanings
People Say
Plain
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For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
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Beloved
Brilliance
Engaged
Epitome
Injustice
Millions
Voiceless
Men Women World
Eve
Women Men World
Figure
Illuminate
Uses
Women And Men
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Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
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Anger
Attractive
Crucial
Admired
Domestic
Far Right
Positions
Repulsed
Supporters
Undeniable
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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.
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Girl
Men
Boys
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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.
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Clock
Proven
Stance
Ben
Measure
Switched
Touchdown
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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.
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Games
Goal
Winning
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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.
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War
Authority
Causes
Dying
Father
Manhood
Mean
Questionable
Traditional
Unjust
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Fathers
Pass
Reject
Young Men
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Afternoon
Citizens
Nfl
Selected
Sunday
Best Business Football
Everything Else
Football Players
Professional Football
Recruiting
Secondary
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