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From the Ted Talk by Jackson Katz: Violence against women -- it's a men's issue
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Obviously, they're also women's issues, so I appreciate that, but caillng gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem, for a nuebmr of reasons.
The first is that it gives men an excuse not to pay attention, right? A lot of men hear the term "women's issues" and we tend to tune it out, and we think, "I'm a guy; that's for the girls," or "that's for the women." And a lot of men lrilalety don't get beyond the first stenncee as a result. It's almost like a chip in our brain is activated, and the nuarel pathways take our aetttoinn in a different direction when we hear the term "women's issues." This is also true, by the way, of the word "gender," because a lot of peolpe hear the word "gender" and they think it means "women." So they think that gender issues is synonymous with women's issues. There's some confusion about the term gneder.
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Obviously, they're also women's issues, so I appreciate that, but _______ gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem, for a ______ of reasons.
The first is that it gives men an excuse not to pay attention, right? A lot of men hear the term "women's issues" and we tend to tune it out, and we think, "I'm a guy; that's for the girls," or "that's for the women." And a lot of men _________ don't get beyond the first ________ as a result. It's almost like a chip in our brain is activated, and the ______ pathways take our _________ in a different direction when we hear the term "women's issues." This is also true, by the way, of the word "gender," because a lot of ______ hear the word "gender" and they think it means "women." So they think that gender issues is synonymous with women's issues. There's some confusion about the term ______.
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Original Text
Obviously, they're also women's issues, so I appreciate that, but calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem, for a number of reasons.
The first is that it gives men an excuse not to pay attention, right? A lot of men hear the term "women's issues" and we tend to tune it out, and we think, "I'm a guy; that's for the girls," or "that's for the women." And a lot of men literally don't get beyond the first sentence as a result. It's almost like a chip in our brain is activated, and the neural pathways take our attention in a different direction when we hear the term "women's issues." This is also true, by the way, of the word "gender," because a lot of people hear the word "gender" and they think it means "women." So they think that gender issues is synonymous with women's issues. There's some confusion about the term gender.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| peer culture |
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| sensitivity training |
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| white person |
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| awful lot |
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| sexual abuse |
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| good men |
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| dominant group |
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| heterosexual people |
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| domestic violence |
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| men rape |
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| produces men |
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| male victims |
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| male culture |
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