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The First Act Of Violence

In the middle of the desert, a grim pile of skulls, picked clean of flesh by crows that hover overhead

Vasily Vereshchagin - The Apotheosis of War



The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. - bell hooks, "Men, Masculinity, and Love"



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