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Free SFCC Workshop to Address Healthy Masculinity
CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT: “Behind the Mask: Promoting Healthy Masculinity”, a free
workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, March 3 in Room 216 at Santa Fe Community College, 6401
Richards Ave. The workshop is open to the public and will include a presentation by gender expert Dr.
Bruno Bornet of SFCC, an open discussion and a screening of the award winning film “Tough Guise” by
Jackson Katz. For information, call (505) 428-1778.
Santa Fe, NM, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006 — If boys will be boys and men will be men, why
must boys and men kill one another to prove it?
Join Dr. Bruno Bornet, an expert on gender roles, to address this question during a free workshop
about healthy masculinity from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, March 3 in Room 216 at Santa Fe
Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., Santa Fe. Bornet is a faculty member and the chair
of the social sciences and humanities department at SFCC and an adjunct faculty member at the
University of New Mexico.
The workshop, “Behind the Mask: Promoting Healthy Masculinity,” will include a
presentation by Bornet, an open discussion and the screening of the award winning film “Tough
Guise” by gender violence prevention educator Jackson Katz and producer Jeremy Earp.
Addressing the idea that masculinity is made, not given, the workshop will illustrate how media
images of manhood play a critical role in making and shaping cultural and personal attitudes
about manhood, and that a critical examination reveals a widespread and disturbing equation of
masculinity with pathological control and violence.
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“Violence in America is overwhelmingly a gendered phenomenon,” said Bornet, quoting Earp
and Katz. During the last 10 years, Bornet has conducted research and taught numerous collegelevel courses on gender roles, sexuality, development, family and psychopathology.
“Constricted, regressive notions of boyhood and manhood help maintain an unacceptable violent
status quo. Any attempt to understand violence therefore requires that we understand its
relationship to cultural codes and ideals of masculinity and manhood. If we want to understand
and to begin to reduce violence in America we must look at the way we raise our sons and break
the cycle by promoting healthy masculinity,” Bornet said.
As part of the workshop, Bornet will point out that statistics back up a disturbing equation of
masculinity with pathological control and violence. According to Earp and Katz, these statistics
show that:
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More than 85 percent of people who commit murder are men.
Nine out of 10 women are murdered by men.
Ninety percent of people who commit violent physical assault are men.
It is estimated that one in four men will use violence against his partner in his lifetime.
Men are responsible for 80 to 95 percent of child sexual abuse cases.
The majority of victims of male violence are other men.
Males cause 86 percent of all drinking and driving incidents.
The event, co-sponsored by the SFCC Social and Behavioral Sciences and Service-Learning
departments, is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The college is
located at 6401 Richards Ave. For information, call (505) 428-1778.
About Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe Community College serves more than 14,500 students per year in its credit, noncredit and adult
basic education programs. For further information, visit www.sfccnm.edu or call (505) 428-1000.
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