Summary Of Tedtalk By Jackson Katz

In the Tedtalk presented by Jackson Katz on violence against women, Katz points out that society tends to make the focus on intimate partner violence about the woman. When this happens, the problem with gendered violence can easily turn into victim blaming. With the entire focus now primarily on the victim or in a broader perspective—the woman, the perpetrator who is more than likely a man has vanished from the equation. In society, what this means is that there is a focus on teaching women how to protect themselves rather than teaching men not to cause harm to women. Jackson Katz explains from here that violence acted out upon women is not a problem about women, it is a problem with the upbringing of men. In the writing produced by Michael