"As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun……" — Sheila Jeffreys
"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 a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position."
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Sheila Jeffreys
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18 Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys
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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual…
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a…
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The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the…
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Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies…
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Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices…
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no…
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be…
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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male…
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Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes…
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social…
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