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. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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… — 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
