arterialtrees: “If a man is not willing to break patriarchal rules that say that he should never...

arterialtrees:

“If a man is not willing to break patriarchal rules that say that he should never change—especially to satisfy someone else, particularly a female—then he will choose being right over being loved. He will turn away from loved ones and choose his manhood over his personhood, isolation over connectedness.”

— bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)