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The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of...more

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Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow th...more

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will ...more

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Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even thos...more

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Again and again a man would tell me about early childhood feelings of emotional exuberance, of unrepressed joy, of feeling connected to life and to ot...more

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Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about being cut off. Eruptions of rage in boys are most of...more

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No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic....more

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The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of...more

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The sou...more

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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radica...more

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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood fee...more

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We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully hono...more

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Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

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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 confes...more