If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.