The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.

When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent, but it will frame all relationships as power struggles"

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.

This clubbis for BLACK MEN ACROSS TYE DIASPORA DISCUSSING TOPICS RELATED TO MASCULINITY WHITE SUPREMACY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BLACK MEN IN A SOCIETY THAT INNATELY DEVALUES WOMEN & A BROADER CULTURE OF NEGLECT THAT IS  INFLUENCED  AND PERPETUATED VIA BLACK MALE CULTURE ACROSS THE DIASPORA. THESE MEN WILL BE DISCUSSING THE TOPICS THAT MATTER, IN A Language THEIR PEERS WILL UNDERSTAND.
PLEASE JOIN US IF YOUNARE BLACK AND MALE AND DESIRE TO GROWN AND DEVELOPE TOOLS THAT MAY PRESERVE YOU LIFE UNDER THE INSTITUTION OF WHITE SUPREMACY WHICH SEEKS TO ANNIHILATE OBLITERATE AND Subjugate ALL BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE DIASPORA.

I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me?


( bell hooks )