Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

by bell hooks

Within white supremacist capitalist patriarchal cultures of domination children do not have rights. Feminist

women are often the primary culprits in everyday violence against children simply because they are the primary parental caregivers.

the fact is that masses of children are daily abused verbally and physically by women and men.

Maternal sadism often leads women to emotionally abuse children,

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Emphasizing male domination makes it easy for women, including feminist thinkers, to ignore the ways women abuse children

we have all been socialized to embrace patriarchal thinking, to embrace an ethics of domination which says the powerful have the right to rule over the powerless

My parents

can use any means to subordinate them.

mothers who abuse.

that she was potentially planting the seeds for this male child to grow up and be abusive to women.

Yet when a child is being hurt this form of negative domination is condoned. This is not an isolated incident

Male sexual abuse of children happens more often and is reported more often than female abuse, but female sexual coercion of children must be seen as just as horrendous as male abuse.