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

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

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

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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

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

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.