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. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.” — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
