At a fun party, mostly of educated, well-paid professionals, a multi-racial, multigenerational evening, the subject of disciplining kids by hitting was raised… As one man bragged about the aggressive beatings he had received from his mother, sharing that “they had been good for him,” I interrupted and suggested that he might not be the misogynist woman-hater he is today if he had not been brutally beaten by a woman as a child.

— All About Love by bell hooks