Male academics sometimes repress bodily presence out of fear rather than deference

Evidence

Similarly, as a white university teacher in his thirties, I’m profoundly aware of my presence in the classroom as well, given the history of the male body, and of the male teacher. I need to be sensitive to and critical of my presence in the history that has led me there. Yet it’s complicated by the fact that you and I are both sensitive to— and maybe even suspicious of—those who seem to be retreating away from a real, maybe radical consciousness of the body into a very conservative mind/body split. Some male colleagues are hiding behind this, repressing their bodies not out of deference but out of fear. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 251

Categorization

• QUESTION: The dialogic structure means this is spoken by the anonymous white interlocutor, not hooks herself — worth noting whose voice this actually is when quoting for an essay.
• XREF: connects to: Male emotional vulnerability enables rather than opposes ego-armour posturing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1323; The intimidation in boot camp suppresses basic bodily assertiveness in recruits; Western metaphysical dualism drives the erasure of the body in academic teaching — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 381 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Fear of losing student respect drives professors back to traditional teaching #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 274
• The intimidation in boot camp suppresses basic bodily assertiveness in recruits #exemplifies (0.82)
• Western metaphysical dualism drives the erasure of the body in academic teaching #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 381
• A professor’s embodied habits can undercut their stated critical politics #exemplifies (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 264
• Male emotional vulnerability enables rather than opposes ego-armour posturing #complicates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1323
• Academic objectification tolerates abuse as long as the mind functions #corroborates (0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 45
• Repeated stances in interaction accrue into enduring identities like gender #expands (0.72) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 62