Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readMay 29, 2024

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Well, why do you think that might be? If somebody had sexualized you, marginalized you, condescended to you, and otherwise discriminated against and abused you since you were a young child - would you be overflowing with adoration for those who had done that to you and every woman you know like a Golden Retriever?

We live in a culture where mainstream masculine socialization encourages men to be aggressive, dominant, and to control and "get what they want" from women - to look at them not like fellow human beings but as objects they are entitled to acquire. And even if you're not doing that, you are swimming in a culture that does and unless you are actively challenging that, you're essentially complicit. In the face of that, are you actually surprised that the rhetoric about men coming from most women is angry and fed up?

In spite of significant social change in recent decades, men continue to grow up with and are socialized into a deeply misogynistic, male-dominated culture, where violence against women—from the subtle to the homicidal—is disturbingly common. It’s normal. And precisely because the mistreatment of women is such a pervasive characteristic of our patriarchal culture, most men, to a greater or lesser extent, have played a role in its perpetuation. This gives us a strong incentive to avert our eyes.

Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox (p. 8). Sourcebooks. Kindle Edition.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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