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Male Feminist Criticism

In Bell Hooks book, Feminism is For Everybody, she touches on the feminist masculinity for a chapter that is very important. What is important is how she brings up how the feminist movement began, but what is more important is when she explains that no matter if feminism came about or no, women would still be oppressed. “It became evident that even if individual men divested of patriarchal privilege the system of patriarchy, sexism, and male domination would still remain intact, and women would still be exploited and/or oppressed” (67) Bell hooks is aware that there is men out there who are in favor of feminism and does not find any excuse to make them look as if they are not able to support feminism. She also makes a valid point that there are men who did not like the idea of the feminist movement and many anti-feminist do have a strong voice, but “there was a small group of men who recognized that feminist movement was as valid a movement for social justice as all the other radical movements our nation’s history that men had supported… these men became our comrades in our struggle and our allies” (68). So I agree with Bell Hooks where she acknowledges that there is male feminist out there who are supportive to the movement without having to biologically be a woman. Feminism is not anti-male, it never was, but what makes life so sexist is judging on whether someone is more masculine or feminine.

Bell Hooks did talk about a touchy subject in the beginning of the chapter. She did mention how feminism did begin and how “individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful” (67) which had me trying to figure out if it was true. There are women who do experience unsuccessful relationships, but I do not feel that it was a reason for some women to begin an anti-male faction. There was not a lot that I was against in this only because she did make a lot of sense in the book. So with this in mind, the only questions are for those who believe that men are at fault of everything bad that happens which shouldn’t be true. Is this the reason why there are things such as male movements to mirror all the negative things women movements have caused?

Hooks, Bell. Feminism is for everybody: Passionate politics. Pluto Press, 2000.

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