Summary Of Be Boy By Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks wishes to express the feminist perspective about masculinity, and she wrote Be Boy Buzz about loving being a boy during her involvement. A question of masculinity comes into play today. While in a thrift store, Bell Hooks saw a George Bush quote talking about love and community and how we must work together for a better good. Bell Hooks believes that men can change and move away from patriarchy. Harry Brod believes the challenge is not getting men to change but rather make men aware of how we always change. Change is an opening up process to what is already happening. There are heroic journeys of men who act in the feminist journeys. George Yancy said that being male became invisible to him because he is a man. 100 years from now,
Being a feminist is about a constant process, disrupting the ways one defines himself as a man. Bell Hooks addresses sexist exploitation because not only women suffer from sexism and sexist exploitation; feminism is not only about women. Feminism is not being “for women”. Rather, feminism is for everyone and continually goes back, criticizing itself, dealing with race issue. The conception of men and masculinity applies as well to rethink men and the challenge to patriarchy. Those who challenge the patriarchy are “silent”. George Yancy says there is a way in which to challenge a male’s gaze if can challenge the way males see women. He believes young boys may wish to be like James Bond and Clint Eastwood. A little young black boy learning about affection and being loved is having a women’s love and role model comes in comparison to Clint Eastwood who comes in and “shoots up a town”. Brod believes if a man comes out strongly against a woman, they are accused of not liking them. Hooks respondes by saying patriarchy responds itself through violence, showing signs of a man. There is fear that to make America great again, one needs male domination in association with how America become