Jackson Katz Quotes

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

The young men felt that they were denied manhood

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I hate guns.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.