This is a long, but important, article by Jackson Katz asking why the media continues to obscure links between masculinity and violence.  Here’s a clip:

“As James Gilligan points out in his book Preventing Violence (2001), “the highest rates of violent behavior occur among young males… That age group alone – fourteen to thirty-nine – commits more than 90 percent of the murders, assaults and rapes in the world, and almost all of the military and political violence as well.”

Not to inhibit the essential conversation the United States needs to have about gun access, mental illness, and violent right wing rhetoric.  Just to insist that gender and misogyny be included in the discussion.

-Katy