LIFE LESSONS | PARENTING | PATRIARCHY
How to raise a bit of patriarchy
(in your family on a Sunday morning over breakfast)
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.
bell hooks: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, 2004
We are a family of three, living on the slopes of the Ridges along the Southwest Coast of Singapore. My spouse Michaela: a lifelong learner, a mindful practitioner of kindfulness, and a highly skilled professional, who with her work as a consultant and educator in organizational agility is bringing in most, if not all of the means we need to stay afloat on this beautiful island — where the cost of living counts among the highest in the world.
