I have so many critiques towards bell hooks because I have studied her writings, interviews and lectures for years and on a more deeper level but the tweet you all are piling on of her quote is not it.
bell hooks definition and unpacking of love is the rejection of cishetero capitalist and ableist patriarchy. She is literally challenging us to change our perception of masculinity. It's a more integral conversation than reducing it to " we already love men a lot"
if you don’t READ THEORY you’re never going to create any impactful movement ever. say, for instance, the no kings protests. lots of people attended but they had no goals because they don’t understand how the system works.
Open the feminist schools!
She’s saying divest from patriarchal masculinity.
And she needed to say it bc ciswomen are JUST AS invested in cishetero patriarchy as men are
Like BFFR. Subjugation is eroticized and the girls love a patriarch!!
I’m so worried about the literacy of feminist theory because that bell hooks quote is NOT asking women to extend an olive branch nor is it asking women to love men in any shape
It’s asking women to divest from patriarchal masculinity that upholds itself via racial capitalism