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	<title>Comments on: Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it&#8217;s a men&#8217;s issue</title>
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		<title>By: John H</title>
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		<dc:creator>John H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Events Update: Did anyone else watch the news coverage yesterday (6/4/13) of the hearing between the Joint Chiefs of Staff representing the US military, and several leading female US Senators, led by the magnificent Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)? The purpose was to discuss sexual assault in the military.

Since the military has completely failed to fix the problem, Senator Gillibrand has proposed moving control of sexual assault cases outside the &quot;chain of command.&quot; The military essentially said, &quot;We don&#039;t like that idea.&quot; Yet there was a deafening silence about what, if anything, they were going to do differently to fix the problem.

That hearing was a &quot;poster child&quot; for what Jackson Katz is saying. Each one of those men (and one very frightened looking female officer) sat there, all solemn and shiny in their uniforms, content with the personal satisfaction of perhaps never having assaulted a woman themselves (?), content with the status quo and their glorious career success. Not one of them was willing to risk &quot;breaking ranks&quot; to get personally involved, to feel the outrage or the helplessness of women who are sexually assaulted under their commands every day. 

If you want fresh, powerful footage of men in leadership positions, men who otherwise might have been considered well above average, collectively dodging responsibility, failing to understand sexual assault of women as a men&#039;s issue, you need go no further than the national embarrassment which was that hearing yesterday, on display for the world to see.

In a remarkable moment of candor, it may have been the very pro-military, hawkish Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who made the most honest assessment when he said, &quot;{Because of this issue] I would not recommend my daughter join the military.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Current Events Update: Did anyone else watch the news coverage yesterday (6/4/13) of the hearing between the Joint Chiefs of Staff representing the US military, and several leading female US Senators, led by the magnificent Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)? The purpose was to discuss sexual assault in the military.</p>
<p>Since the military has completely failed to fix the problem, Senator Gillibrand has proposed moving control of sexual assault cases outside the &#8220;chain of command.&#8221; The military essentially said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t like that idea.&#8221; Yet there was a deafening silence about what, if anything, they were going to do differently to fix the problem.</p>
<p>That hearing was a &#8220;poster child&#8221; for what Jackson Katz is saying. Each one of those men (and one very frightened looking female officer) sat there, all solemn and shiny in their uniforms, content with the personal satisfaction of perhaps never having assaulted a woman themselves (?), content with the status quo and their glorious career success. Not one of them was willing to risk &#8220;breaking ranks&#8221; to get personally involved, to feel the outrage or the helplessness of women who are sexually assaulted under their commands every day. </p>
<p>If you want fresh, powerful footage of men in leadership positions, men who otherwise might have been considered well above average, collectively dodging responsibility, failing to understand sexual assault of women as a men&#8217;s issue, you need go no further than the national embarrassment which was that hearing yesterday, on display for the world to see.</p>
<p>In a remarkable moment of candor, it may have been the very pro-military, hawkish Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who made the most honest assessment when he said, &#8220;{Because of this issue] I would not recommend my daughter join the military.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since only a small percentage of acts of sexual violence are brought to the attention of the authorities, it is difficult to compile accurate statistics. Often, the statistics of successful convictions are looked at lieu of this. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (1997) stated that that 91% of United States people whose rape accusations resulted in convictions against the accused were female and 9% were male. It also stated that 99% of the people convicted of and imprisoned in response to rape accusations were male, with only 1% of those convicted being female.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since only a small percentage of acts of sexual violence are brought to the attention of the authorities, it is difficult to compile accurate statistics. Often, the statistics of successful convictions are looked at lieu of this. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (1997) stated that that 91% of United States people whose rape accusations resulted in convictions against the accused were female and 9% were male. It also stated that 99% of the people convicted of and imprisoned in response to rape accusations were male, with only 1% of those convicted being female.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender</a></p>
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		<title>By: Max</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have to say not all together true.Women have been known to rape,domestic violence,abuser&#039;s.Maybe not as much,I know several women who are so mean as a male when it comes to fighting,abusive.

SO these female teachers that are having sex with underage female/males students most time in the law eyes that is rape.

Sometimes women will get feed up and go beyond abusive to murder as some men do!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would have to say not all together true.Women have been known to rape,domestic violence,abuser&#8217;s.Maybe not as much,I know several women who are so mean as a male when it comes to fighting,abusive.</p>
<p>SO these female teachers that are having sex with underage female/males students most time in the law eyes that is rape.</p>
<p>Sometimes women will get feed up and go beyond abusive to murder as some men do!</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=18910#comment-81969</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it rather sad that Katz presented gross misinformation in his comments. According to the most recent statistics 1 in 6 males will be a victim of sexual abuse by 18. Approximately 40% of those perpetrators are women. It is truly disturbing that Katz felt the need to deny male victimization, and even worse that he used a completely inaccurate stat--like 99% of all rape victims are female--to support what appears to be his tacit endorsement of sexual violence against males.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it rather sad that Katz presented gross misinformation in his comments. According to the most recent statistics 1 in 6 males will be a victim of sexual abuse by 18. Approximately 40% of those perpetrators are women. It is truly disturbing that Katz felt the need to deny male victimization, and even worse that he used a completely inaccurate stat&#8211;like 99% of all rape victims are female&#8211;to support what appears to be his tacit endorsement of sexual violence against males.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is that culturally and legally we have a really hard time defining rape. People&#039;s definitions of &#039;rape&#039; vs. their definition of &#039;sexual abuse&#039; can be all over the place. Therefore, it&#039;s really hard to compare a statistic of rape victims with one of sexual abuse victims. Depending on who is asking the questions and who is answering them, rape can be any number of things and sexual abuse can also be any number of things.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is that culturally and legally we have a really hard time defining rape. People&#8217;s definitions of &#8216;rape&#8217; vs. their definition of &#8216;sexual abuse&#8217; can be all over the place. Therefore, it&#8217;s really hard to compare a statistic of rape victims with one of sexual abuse victims. Depending on who is asking the questions and who is answering them, rape can be any number of things and sexual abuse can also be any number of things.</p>
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