All reaction I slimited by, and dependent on, is what it is reacting against.
Tenderness, a sign of vulnerability, is so feared that it is showered on women with verbal abuse and blows. Men, even more than women are fettered to gender roles.
Women at least have had the guts to break out of bondage. Only gay men have had the courage to expose themselves to the woman inside them and to challenge the current masculinity.
Harry Styles: “We’re all al little but gay, aren’t we?”
The whites in power want us people of color to barricade ourselves behind separate tribal walls so they can pick us off one at a time with their hidden weapons so they can white wash and distort history.
Ignorance splits people, creates prejudices. A misinformed people is a subjugated people.
Within us and within [other cultures] commonly held beliefs of white and personal culture
Subconsciously we see an attack on ourselves and out beliefs as a threat and we attempt to block with a counterstance.
Neumerous possiblilites leave la mestiza floundering in uncharted seas. in perceiving conflicting information and points of view, she is subjected to a swamping of her psychological bornders. These borders and walls are supposed to keep the undersireable ideas out are entrenched habits and patterns of behavior.
Move towards a perspective that includes not excludes.
Borderlands Gloria Anzaldua
Masculinity only exists in the context of a whole structure of gender realtions and a value placed on each gender identified.
Health and Masculinity 