Title: Writing on Glass — The Essential bell hooks
Headings: Writing on Glass
Writing on Glass
Content: Mass media capitalized on these missteps to label feminists as "man-haters." The media amplified anti-male feminists and portrayed them as the feminist archetype. As bell hooks note, "Conservative mass media constantly represented feminist women as man-haters. And when there was an anti-male faction or sentiment in the movement, they highlighted it as a way of discrediting feminism...Feminists who called for a recognition of men as comrades in struggle never received mass media attention." But contrary to common perception, feminism embraces men. bell hooks embraces feminist men. " Without male allies in struggle," she writes, "feminist movement will not progress." She details the ways in which patriarchy betrays men, encouraging them to suppress emotion, devalue communication, and seek power and dominance -- all of which lead men to lives lacking in fulfillment. And she emphasizes there must be feminist education available for males. " Men often tell me they have no idea what it is feminists want," she recounts in Feminism is for Everybody. "