Masculinity
You don’t need to be told you’re not enough. The world says it in a thousand little ways. You just kind of know. Somewhere between being a boy and becoming a man, you look around and realise everything you want- respect, love, attention, p... See more
Gor • what women don't understand about men
"To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings."
– bell hooks, The Will to Change
Patriarchal culture continues to control the hearts of men precisely because it socializes males to believe that without their role as patriarchs they will have no reason for being.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Bromance:
"Men have the ability, the need and the desire to form deep and intimate friendships just as much as women... Male friendship is so fraught that we as a culture have invented a special term to characterize the extraordinary phenomenon of two men having dinner together."
– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men
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"When I asked men how traditional masculinity presented itself, more than one man said they felt this pressure from the women in their lives."
– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men
"The way some men tend to bottle up their feelings has been observed by researchers. It's called emotional restrictivity, and it's something that is learned, not innate to their biology."
– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men
“In this culture we celebrate boys through the lexicon of violence. ‘You're killing it,’ 'you’re making a killing,’ ‘smash them,’ ‘blow them up,’ ‘you went into that game guns blazing,’ and I think it’s worth it to ask the question what happens to our men and boys when the only way they can valuate themselves is through the lexicon of death and des
... See more"We construct a culture where male pain can have no voice, where male hurt cannot be named or healed."
– bell hooks, The Will to Change