Sheila Jeffreys Quotes

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• The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
• Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity…
• The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It…
• Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation.…
• Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to…
• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to…
• Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
• It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are…
• Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
• As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of…
• Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women…
• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the…
• Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters,…
• Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
• Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the…

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