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Women are raped and coerced into sex.
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Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.
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Feminism
Feminist
Sexuality
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The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
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Existence
Reality
Should
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
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Genocide
Perpetrators
Postmodernism
Accountable
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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
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Man Hater
Misandry
Sex
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Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
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Law
Powerful
United States
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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
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Men
Believe
Radical Feminism
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If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.
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Ifs
Pornography
Sexuality
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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
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Feminism
Names
Opinion
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People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
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People
Relation
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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
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Benefits
Force
Standing
Benefit
Elite
Few
Forces
Greatly
Mainly
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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
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Government
Feminist
Goal
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
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Father
Growing Up
Pain
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
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Enough
Sex
Violence
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
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Equality
Assault
Facts
Nonsense
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In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
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Color
Great Men
Harvard
People
Work Women Great
Appointment
Tremendously
Whose
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It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
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Home
Betrayal
People
Home Always Your
Close
Home People Always
Particularly
Group
Oppose
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
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Aquariums
Dawn
Dogma
Ideas
Shot
Essential
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
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Men
Academia
Feminist
Postmodernism
Rooted
Theory
Men Women Where
Men Women World
Elite
Women Men World
Women And Men
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An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
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Life
Groups
Individuality
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If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
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Done
Hurt
Looks
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
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Able
Decent
Genius
Admired
Earn
Misrepresented
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What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
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Defense
Giving
Males
Multicultural
Postmodernism
Male
Effect
Wherever
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Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
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Men
Mouths
Want
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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
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Men
Christian
Feminist
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Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
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Power
Believe
Utterance
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Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
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Children
Homeless
Sex
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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
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Abuse
Defined
Groups
Mean
Prisoner
Rules
Member
Reduced
Status
Whom
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Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.
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Men
Dominance
Sex
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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
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Men
Moving
Sex
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Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
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Men
Body
Use
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Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.
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Grateful
Self
Survival
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Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.
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Father
Growing Up
Pain
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