A social researcher highlights the startlingly different ways men and women avoid sexual assaults

[phands]

Wow....

Hey Derec, Jolly and others, read this and think hard.

Jackson Katz is social researcher known for his work around gender violence and how to prevent it in the first place. His biography lists him as: Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, filmmaker, and cultural theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race, and violence.


In 2013, he gave a TED Talk (which can be seen below) in which he said the way we talk about gender violence is all wrong. This quote went viral last year at the start of the #MeToo movement. It’s powerful.

There's MUCH more at... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...rent-ways-men-and-women-avoid-sexual-assaults

 

[phands]

Actually, I had to add this quote...

[FONT=&quot]We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many raped women.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]We talk about how many girls in a school district were harassed last year, not about how many boys harassed girls. We talk about how many teenager girls in the state of Vermont got pregnant last year, rather than how many men and boys impregnated teenage girls.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]So you can see how the use of the passive voice has a political effect.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It shifts the focus off of men and boys and onto girls and women. Even the term ‘violence against women’ is problematic.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It’s a passive construction; there’s no active agent in the sentence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It just happens to them.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Men aren’t even a part of it.[/FONT]

Perfect...male culture in a nutshell.

 

[Axulus]

Actually, I had to add this quote...

[FONT=&quot]We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many raped women.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]We talk about how many girls in a school district were harassed last year, not about how many boys harassed girls. We talk about how many teenager girls in the state of Vermont got pregnant last year, rather than how many men and boys impregnated teenage girls.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]So you can see how the use of the passive voice has a political effect.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It shifts the focus off of men and boys and onto girls and women. Even the term ‘violence against women’ is problematic.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It’s a passive construction; there’s no active agent in the sentence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It just happens to them.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Men aren’t even a part of it.[/FONT]

Perfect...male culture in a nutshell.

A high percentage of the sex crimes are committed by a small percentage of boys/men. The repeat offenders are responsible for most crime in general. The problem would look less severe if we talked about the number men who rape. I would actually think it a great idea to do this. It will hopefully put the actual percent of men who offend in proper prospective in people's minds.

Jackson Katz has some extremely useful insights in general.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

^ My thoughts exactly. Most men are not rapists or rape apologists. Male Culture, if we must generalize men (which I'd prefer we didn't), is actually to abhor rape.

 

[phands]

You two seem to not have heard the old saw I quoted: "All that is necessary for extremes to flourish is for moderate and good people to do and day nothing". While most men aren't rapists, the culture in which we grow up implicitly condones the attitudes and behaviours that make rape as common as it is and as under-reported and under-acted-upon as it is.