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Hear Me Out: Patriarchy Hurts All Of Us — Including Men

Slate Debates

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The Dynamics of Gender in Our Society

The way gender works is a form of controlling or regulating people based on our ideas about manhood and womanhood. One of the most, I think, victimized group by those ideas in our country is black men. It also has to do with the competition of manhood between white men and men of color. The fact that more than one in four black men are incarcerated in our society is not a irrelevant question as to what gender does in our society.

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