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. — 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
