Hello comrades, it’s time for our first discussion thread for The Will to Change! Please share your thoughts below on the first two sections of the book. There’s quite a lot to talk about between hooks’ discussion of masculinity discourse within feminist circles, the ways both men and women uphold patriarchy, and the near universal experience of men being forced to suppress their rich emotional worlds from a young age. I’ll be posting my thoughts in a little bit after I’m done with work.

If you haven’t read the book yet but would like to, its available free on the Internet Archive in text form, as well as an audiobook on Youtube with content warnings at the start of each chapter, courtesy of the Anarchist Audio Library, and as an audiobook on our very own TankieTube! (note: the YT version is missing the Preface but the Tankietube version has it) Let me know if you’d like to be added to the ping list!

Our next discussion will be on Chapters 2 (Understanding Patriarchy) and 3 (Being a Boy), beginning on 12/4.

Thanks to everyone who is or will be participating, I’m really looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts! feminism

  • dumplesEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    In her feminism is for everyone bell hooks mentioned that “the media” put a lot of emphasis on the man-hating feminist since they made a great villain to discredit the whole movement. With social media this is still the case with these voices either being magnified either as rage bait or aftro turfing. Overall its been a success with some many young men hating “feminism” because they care about equality between the genders. So I don’t know if its gotten bigger but at least its the most visible

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      In her feminism is for everyone bell hooks mentioned that “the media” put a lot of emphasis on the man-hating feminist since they made a great villain to discredit the whole movement.

      Also makes for better drama. Having the stereotypical man-hater going at it with reactionaries creates more bombast than a feminist talking about how we need to let men love.

      aftro turfing

      Okay I know that was a typo but holy crap we need to make that a term for Astroturfed black liberation NGOs.

      • dumplesEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        aftro turfing

        Total typo but a great word for anytime anyone is pretending to be black online…

      • dumplesEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        Exactly. It creates the drama and is a good distraction from any real discussion.