Jackson Katz: "Men Have a Responsibility to Women, Girls and Other Males to End Sexism"

lostapwbm · 2017-10-18T03:12:42+00:00

When my colleagues and I first began doing gender violence prevention education workshops with male college athletes in the early 1990s, we would often hear them express frustration that they had been unfairly tarnished with the cultural stereotype that “jocks” don’t respect women. It’s a sentiment we still hear from male student-athletes to this day.

What I would tell them is that they had a choice: They could hunker down in a defensive crouch and complain they weren’t being treated fairly.

And perhaps you could LISTEN AND BELIEVE what men say. Maybe, just maybe, some men are actually telling the truth when they say that harassing them as "potential rapists" is unfair? Or does LISTEN AND BELIEVE only apply to women?

Or they could change the negative perception by standing up and speaking out about sexual assault and relationship abuse. They could use their considerable cultural capital with other men and with younger boys to help prevent the abuse from happening in the first place.

Bend your knee, take up the oath of the White Knight, and pledge your eternal servitude to Wymynkind.

Miss me with that bullshit.

In response to so many women’s raw testimony about the effects of this abuse in their lives, men who do not engage in abusive behaviors should ask themselves: Do I retreat to the shameful strategy of casting doubt on the veracity of the women’s claims? Do I resort to the embarrassing practice of protesting that #NotAllMen commit sexist violence, and thereby absolve myself of any responsibility to act?

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur (What is freely asserted may be freely deserted).

I have no duty to accept or even consider the veracity of claims made in the absence of proof. I have no more of a duty to accept a woman's word that she was "raped" in the absence of any corroboration, than I do to accept that she was abducted by aliens in the absence of any corroboration.

Or do they choose to respond to women’s demand to be treated with respect and dignity with a renewed pledge of their own, to do whatever they can to identify and fight against sexism, both within themselves and when it is manifested by other men?

Women are strong, and independent, and don't need no man. Let them fight their own battles.

We still have a lot of work to do to make anti-sexism normal and respectable among men. Adult men have a responsibility not only to women and girls to do this; we also have a responsibility to our sons and all young men, and to our own sense of fairness, justice and basic human decency.

Wait a minute, you just dismissed men who demanded fairness from being tarred with stereotypes of being considered rapist jocks fratboys, and now you want your demands for fairness to be taken seriously?

Feminists demand fairness from men but will never show fairness in kind. Feminists demand that men treat them justly while heaping every injustice they can get away with on men. Feminists scream that servitude to women is "basic human decency" while sneering that women don't owe men anything.

Feminists demand from men what they will never give to men and call it equality.

dogwoodcat · 2017-10-18T03:17:21+00:00

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2017-10-18T03:59:43+00:00

Sexism, Racism and Classism will never end because SJW’s keep moving the goal posts.

First it was touching women, fine we stopped that. Then it was dirty jokes, we stopped that too. Now it’s sexist to even talk to them or explain something to them in a knowledgeable way. Ok, we quit talking to them. Oh wait, now it’s sexist to spread my legs too much.

Fuck it, I must be sexist and I’m not changing. Fuck you.

Same with racism, I don’t give a fuck what race you are. A criminal is a criminal, can’t help it that a large percentage are black. Maybe it’s a black community problem, not a cop problem. I’m a racist if I use FBI statistics though.

ExpertDabbler · 2017-10-18T03:18:18+00:00

Damn I'm 47 and she just looks grandmotherly .. I still look 38-ish.

2017-10-18T07:36:11+00:00

Fuck off Jackson. I have no intention to sexually harass any woman. That should be enough.

nicoknecha · 2017-10-18T11:08:30+00:00

“Men have a Responsibilty” - then men better have Authority.

2017-10-18T06:56:13+00:00

"MEN HAVE TO END SEXISM!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

me "Ladies first... trollface.jpg"

2017-10-18T07:07:16+00:00

I'll get right on that as soon as a single woman steps up and denounces:

I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. Linda Gordon I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig. Andrea Dworkin Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage. Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Andrea Dworkin The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist. Ti-Grace Atkinson Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6 When a woman reaches ****** with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression. Sheila Jeffrys Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. Catherine MacKinnon The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men. Sharon Stone Ninety-five percent of women’s experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive… women didn’t go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. Jodie Foster, quoted in The New York Times Magazine The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future – If There Is One – Is Female And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference. Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. Mary Daly If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them. David Angier Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience. Catherine Comins As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women…he can sexually molest his daughters… THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE. Marilyn French I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it. Barbara Jordan, former Congresswoman Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. Germaine Greer Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence. Judith Levine Women have their faults / men have only two: / everything they say / everything they do. Popular Feminist Graffiti We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable. Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women I do want to be able to explain to a 9-year-old boy in terms he will understand why I think it’s OK for girls to wear shirts that revel in their superiority over boys. Treena Shapiro

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Title	Jackson Katz: "Men Have a Responsibility to Women, Girls and Other Males to End Sexism"
Author	lostapwbm
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Date	October 18, 2017 3:10 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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