In this clip, Jackson Katz, founder of the US Mentors of Violence Prevention (MVP) programme http://www.mvpnational.org/), speaks about men’s role in preventing gender violence. He discusses men’s responsibility to challenge peer cultures that condone gender based violence.
“The bystander approach is trying to give people tools to interrupt that process and to speak up, and to create a peer culture climate where the abusive behaviour is seen as unacceptable – not just because it’s illegal, but because it’s wrong and unacceptable in the peer culture. If we can get to the place where men who act out in sexist ways will lose status, where young men and boys who act out in sexist and harassing ways towards women and girls (as well as towards other boys and men) will lose status as a result of it, guess what? We’ll see a radical diminution of the abuse, because the typical perpetrator is not sick and twisted, he’s a normal guy in every other way.”

This talk was given at a TEDxWomen Event, TEDxFiDIWomen, 1 December 2011, San Francisco, California.
http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/3654