Danny Ramirez Instagram – Reading List: The Will To Change by bell hooks I’ve tried to articulate how powerful of an experience reading this book was but couldn’t do it justice. This review from Goodreads does a great job: “Every man, and everyone who loves a man, should read this book. The Will to Change carries a revolution in its pages. bell hooks argues with fierce eloquence about how we socialize men to numb their emotions, to only express anger and rage. She conveys honest compassion by contending that we must socialize everyone to honor male pain so that men will treat others with loving kindness, lest they forever repress their feelings to live up to the awful standards of toxic masculinity. One of the several quotes I loved from this book: “The reality is that men are hurting and that the whole culture responds to them by saying, ‘Please do not tell us what you feel.’ … If we cannot heal what we cannot feel, by supporting patriarchal culture that socializes men to deny feelings, we doom them to live in states of emotional numbness. We construct a culture where male pain can have no voice, where male hurt cannot be named or healed.” I learned so much about myself through reading this book and I’d love for as many as you to experience it as well. DM me and I’ll try to do my best to send out a few copies of this book. #TheWillToChange