
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Imagine a wage offered for this work of self-development.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Many men are angry at women, but more profoundly, women are the targets for displaced male rage at the failure of patriarchy to make good on its promise of fulfillment, especially endless sexual fulfillment.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Women have not proven that they care enough about the hearts of men, about their emotional well-being, to challenge patriarchy on behalf of those men with whom they want to know love.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
In an antipatriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Men seeking help often find it difficult to find support. We ask them to change without creating a culture of change to affirm and assist them.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
I am responsible for accepting or choosing the values by which I live. If I live by values I have accepted or adopted passively and unthinkingly, it is easy to imagine that they are just “my nature,” just “who I am,” and to avoid recognizing that choice is involved. If I am willing to recognize that choices and decisions are crucial when values are
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M. Scott Peck discusses the root meaning of the term “integrity,” which is the verb “to integrate,” emphasizing that this is the opposite of compartmentalization.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated. However, this is a perverse vision of gender equality that offers women equal access to the house of the dead. In that house there will be no love.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Fear keeps us from being close to the men in our lives; it keeps us from love. Once upon a time I thought it was