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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,…

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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…
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of…
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…
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation…
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and…
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…
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…
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality…

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