Assignment 2
02/17/2020
Understanding Patriarchy By Bell Hook
While reading I’ve noticed how in the being Patriarchy is introduced to a metaphor as some type of ‘disease that assaults the male body and spirit of our nation’. Also it becomes clear that becomes clear that for Bell Hook feminist project to overthrow patriarchy which is also an attempt to offer healing or ‘salvation’ to both men and women. Hook also Challenges the idea that the concept of patriarchy is irrelevant to men’s experience arguing, while noting the irony, that the male ignorance of the concept is evidence of the very weakness/lack of power that patriarchy denies exists within male identity and instead projects on to the female half of the gender binary that it polices.
Quotes
"My brother and I
remember our confusion about gender. In reality I was stronger and more violent
than my brother, which we learned quickly was bad. And he was a gentle and
peaceful boy, which we learned was really bad. We could not be and act the way
we wanted to”
This quote hits hard
because in today’s world, at a young age there’s a lot of confusion of gender. For
example there’s a new controversy how the famous basketball player Dwayne Wade
12 years old son who is now addressed as Zaya a girl ,For me that’s two young
for a child to know their own identity. But I’m sure that him being a boy and
having a soft side, made him uncomfortable for him not to be able to
“To end male pain, to respond
effectively to the male crisis, we have to name the problem. We have to both
acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy”
This is another issue that we suffer from in today’s
world, the media makes the world go round, when we see a man cry, suffer or
just down and out. The media and the world portray him as weak. Also as women
we might be labelled as weak, when we have a mental breakage. But as both man
and women we must learn to acknowledge and accept what we are going though.
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