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Tags: masculinity

Bell Hooks

Reference

  • Wanting men to be more like women

  • Knowing that “showing emotion” kills attraction

  • All leadership or responsibility is seen as “a need for dominance”

  • Patriarchy definition

  • Little boys had to learn to “betray themselves”

  • Maturity and becoming a man is some traumatic experience

  • Anger is the sole emotion celebrated in patriarchy

  • Single mother households “fall for the delusion of patriarchal roles even more” no citation of any evidence btw and isn’t that simply realizing you need a father to raise kids