Communion: The Female Search for Love: 2 (Love Song to the Nation, 2)

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If the men in our lives—our fathers, uncles, grandfathers, brothers—stand idly by while elder women abuse us, then we lose respect for them. M. men all over the world will talk about their feelings and women all over the world will be sorry.

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When I entered wholeheartedly into feminist movement, I had the full encouragement of my male partner, whose personality, as it turned out, was a mixture of my dad and granddad.In my childhood there were men who were not ashamed to express their love of God openly and to shed ecstatic tears.

love and feminism bell hooks quotes: Her profound words on love and feminism

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject.Understanding marginality as position and place of resistance is crucial for oppressed, exploited, colonized people. Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we acted. Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true love existing among friends, and not just same-sex friends. And even a woman like Jane Fonda, married to one of the richest men in the world, who freed her from work, now testifies that she felt she was losing her identity in her marriage, and she left and began to create her own work projects. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.