Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power.

Evidence

The social process whereby people born with cocks attain and maintain masculinity takes place in male bonding. Male bonding is institutionalized learned behavior whereby men recognize and reinforce one another’s bona fide membership in the male gender class and whereby men remind one another that they were not born women. Male bonding is political and pervasive. It occurs whenever two males meet. It is not restricted to all-male-groupings. It is the form and content of each and every encounter between two males. Boys learn very early that they had better be able to bond. What they learn in order to bond is an elaborate behavioral code of gestures, speech, habits and attitudes, which effectively exclude women from the society of men. Male bonding is how men learn from each other that they are entitled under patriarchy to power in the culture. Male bonding is how men get that power, and male bonding is how it is kept. Therefore, men enforce a taboo against unbonding—a taboo which is fundamental to patriarchal society. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘male bonding’ as an institutionalized behavioral code that excludes women and secures male power, not mere friendship.
• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary committees inverted generational authority by making sons tax their own fathers; The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 225; Most men in patriarchal society resent women who abandon passive roles — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 231 (+8 more)

Related

• Most men in patriarchal society resent women who abandon passive roles (similarity 0.82)
• Revolutionary committees inverted generational authority by making sons tax their own fathers (similarity 0.82)
• Pimp-prostitute relations mirror patriarchal expectations of wives and daughters. (similarity 0.80)
• The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Male supremacy functions as a political strategy of subordination. #corroborates (0.70)