Bell Hooks Quotes About Maleness

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  • The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

    Bell Hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, Washington Square Pr
  • This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

    bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”
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