Gender Roles

 

“Silence is present everywhere under patriarchy, though it requires different silences from men than from women. You can imagine the policing of gender as the creation of reciprocal silences, and you can begin to recognize male silence as a tradeoff for power and membership. No one ever put it better than bell hooks, who said: ‘The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.’

That is, patriarchy requires that men silence themselves first (and perhaps it’s worth noting that, though patriarchy is a system that privileges men and masculinity, many women are complicit in it, some men rebel against it, and other people are undoing the rules of gender that prop it up). This means learning not only to be silent to others but also to themselves, about aspects of their inner life and self.

Reading hooks’s passage, I was chilled, as though I suddenly understood that this is the plot of a horror movie or a zombie movie. The deadened seek out the living to exterminate feeling, either by making their targets join them in numbness or by intimidating or assaulting them into silence. In the landscape of silence, the three realms might be silence imposed from within; silence imposed from without; and silence that exists because it has not been named, recognized, described, or admitted. But they are not distinct; they feed each other; and what is unsayable becomes unknowable and vice versa, until something breaks.” — Rebecca Solnit (Facebook post, October 28, 2017) ***MLA Citation for this source on page 4

 

INSTRUCTIONS: WRITE a well-developed and well-organized essay in which you indicate whether you agree or disagree that “patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves…” and that this silencing of emotions may become unsayable and unknowable “until something breaks.”  Support your position, providing reasons and examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.  

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