Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

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

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

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.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.