La volonté de changer

Patriarchy and domination harm men, too, feminism and gender equality movements should also aim to support men flourishing outside of patriarchal models. The writers she is responding to are an odd often shallow mix and the later essays meander more from the opening vitality.

I was surprised by how little there was for me in this. It doesn't seem like a truly transcendental idea that men are also people who are harmed by patriarchy? I didn't feel like hooks had much to say about that, and mostly repeated herself: men have feelings and needs they can't express & explore under patriarchy, this paucity of outlets hurts men and others who relate to them, anecdotes illustrating this point and then a few recaps. Maybe I've just already done a fair bit of thinking about men and masculinity, so the core thesis of this document didn't need to inspire much new thought for me?