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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
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.
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.
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.
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
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.
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.
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
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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