The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

by bell hooks

to choose to be with a patriarchal man is automatically to sign up for some level of abuse, however relative.

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

imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal culture continues to insist that domination must be the organizing principle of today’s civilization.