This chapter in bell hooks’ book “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” challenges deeply normalized beliefs about power, authority, and violence in everyday life. Instead of merely condemning individual acts of male violence against women, she describes a movement that disrupts social norms by exposing how violence is embedded in hierarchical systems such as patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, and the family itself. This perspective unsettles societal norms because it forces both men and women to confront their own participation in and acceptance of coercive power, including the ways violence is justified as discipline, love, protection, or authority. By questioning long-standing assumptions that domination is natural and necessary, this movement threatens institutions that rely on control and obedience. hooks argues that this disruption is necessary, because ending violence requires transforming cultural values and social relationships at their core, not merely managing or punishing violent behavior after it occurs.