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What 'makes a man' needs to change - experts

Mastodon - Tue, 2012-08-14 16:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'Boys learn very quickly growing up they should respond to challenges with violence, says the senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong.

Dr Flood says: “There’s good evidence that male-on-male violence … is shaped very strongly by codes of manhood based on honour, on pride, on aggression."

“We need culture change. We need change in the way we raise our boys.”

Boys learn to react with violence from their peers, family and culture.
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“I think we need to complement campaigns about violence against women with ones about men’s violence against men.”'

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Violence against men perpetrated by both sexes

gregory - Wed, 2012-08-15 12:11

"I think we need to complement campaigns about violence against women with ones about men’s violence against men.”

Uhm...what about women's violence against men? Shouldn't we include that too?

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How about...

MR - Wed, 2012-08-15 18:48

How about a campaign against biased, advocacy research - especially in the pseudo-science area of sociology?

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