One such example is amply described in chapter 10, referring to "Guilty pleasures: pornography, prostitution and stripping." As throughout the book, the theoretical discussion is keenly doubled by lots of breathtaking examples of acts of violence. The chapter starts in this manner with the case of a young woman gang raped and filmed while she was unconscious. The case reveals on several different levels how the underlying factors and a misogynist society are in fact the deeply rooted causes of such an event. First, there is the level of the young men who committed the crime: their acts are closely related to a culture where pornography dominates, especially at that age, the lives and, as could be seen with that case, the sexual expressions of the male individual.

However, the second level is in fact much more worrying, because it comes from the young men's lawyers and, as such, can be perceived as coming from an entity of authority. Their defense in court was, in fact, built almost entirely on a misogynistic platform. The victim was presented as "a "slut" and a "whore," who loved giving "blow jobs" and enjoyed "doggy-style" sex"

. One can reasonably ask how that would justify her being gang raped? The only explanation is that such arguments become viable in a misogynistic society and are accepted as such.

As...

As he shows, "girls and women suffer the most harm from a culture awash in misogynist pornography, but boys and men are hurt, too"
. Their reaction to their own hurt should be giving up paying and consuming pornography.

Another interesting perspective on the book is Katz's focus on regular male individuals rather than on sociopaths or on particular archetypes of abusers. The concerning conclusion of such an analysis is that the factors in society, some of them analyzed in this paper, can actually affect even sane and apparently normal individuals, transforming them into brutes. In this manner, virtually all men (and, as a direct result, all women) could be, at some point, the perpetrators of violence against women at some time in their life.

Bibliography

1. Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox. Sourcebooks Inc. April 2006.

2. Tracy, Steven. Book Review: The Macho Paradox. Priscilla Papers. Vol. 23. No.1. 2009

Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox. Sourcebooks Inc. April 2006.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Tracy, Steven. Book Review: The Macho Paradox. Priscilla Papers. Vol. 23. No.1. 2009