Jackson Katz's TED Talk

According to National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States”(National Coalition Against Domestic Violence). Domestic violence affects individuals in every community throughout the world. Every case is different but usually, ends in someone's partner trying to gain control over the other. Two of the most major cases of domestic violence is against woman and sexual abuse. Also called gender-based violence, men commit acts of violence against women just because they are women. In November 2012, Jackson Katz did a TED Talk, It was called “Violence Against Women- It is a Men's issues”. In this TEDTalk, Katz spoke about how domestic violence is usually labelled a women's issue but truly, in fact, it's a men's issues. Throughout Katz lecture, he uses logos, pathos, and ethos to discuss his reasoning behind men's violence and the unacceptable behaviour because of it.

Jackson Katz lectures that calling gender violence a woman's issue is really the problem. During the beginning of Katz’s speech, he elaborates about his paradigm-shifting perspective, a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices. In TED Talk, Katz argues that there are “men's issues”too, Katz argues that calling gender violence a woman's issue is part of the problem, it gives men an excuse not to pay attention. In addition to that, Katz came up with something called the bystander approach, instead of seeing men as perpetrators and women as victims, or women as perpetrators and men as victims. Katz argues that the bystander approach to give people options, interrupt, and create a peer culture climate where the abusive behaviour will be seen as unacceptable. He stated that if men and women were to come together and work on this issue, the future for our children would