Dr. Jackson Katz

Before attending this lecture the only knowledge I had of Dr. Jackson Katz was his film, “Tough Guise” which I had seen in a com class. For the most part, I found his lecture to be interesting and captivating. I feel like many topics which are covered in com classes become biased and only viewed from the point of view of male or female. I appreciate that Katz is looking at issues from a more universal perspective. For example, taking issues such as women being raped by men and high school shootings being done by male students. He looks at these topics in more of a broad way than simply saying women are the victims. He proposes that males might be victims as well. He wants to understand what is going wrong with these men that makes them do these types of things. He says that both boys and girls are full of love and are lively when they are babies but what makes boys react in such violent ways as they grow up and not girls for the most part. He points his finger at the media and society. They influence men to be aggressive. The only place he lost me was when he said that men need to stand up and start making changes. We need to tell our friends who treat women like objects not treat them like that. I feel like he should have given more examples of how all people can become more active in offering alternatives to those who treat women badly. I think he should have given more examples of things he is doing to make a change. Overall I enjoyed the lecture and would go to another one of his lectures.