Boys Quote by Andrea Dworkin

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.

— Meda Chesney-Lind

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees…

— bell hooks

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are…

— Adrienne Rich

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

— Troy Vincent

“This is a central point of this book—we don’t hate violence. We hate and fear the wrong kind of violence, violence in the wrong…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Violent atrocities by teenagers against one another have become the stuff of headlines: at Columbine High School in Colorado; in Tabor, Alberta; in Liverpool,…

— Gabor Maté

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Why aren’t boys more engaged in school? According to Sommers, “schools today tend to be run by women for girls. Classrooms can be hostile…

— Helen Smith

“Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about being cut off. Eruptions of rage in boys are…

— bell hooks

“What’s the matter with manhood? There’s something about how masculinity is imagined, about what’s praised and encouraged, about the way violence is passed on…

— Rebecca Solnit

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could…

— Myriam Miedzian

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliation…

— Henry Giroux