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“The common perception is that man hating is solely a radical feminist practice. In my essay, I maintain that is neither radical nor particularly feminist. It's a human response to having your autonomy restricted, and in some cases, destroyed.”
Coleen Kearon, Feminist on Fire: A novel

Michel Foucault
“The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.”
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

Andrea Dworkin
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.”
Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

Stanisław Lem
“For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.”
Stanisław Lem

Sheila Jeffreys
“To clarify the dilemma women have about sexual enthusiasm for men, it is helpful to contrast it with men's situation. It is unlikely in the extreme that men will have experienced actual sexual violence from women or its threat. Men do not live in cultures where the degradation and brutalisation of men at the hands of women is the stuff of pornography, entertainment and advertising. Men do not live with the consciousness that they are being hunted by women who would take sexual delight in dismembering them simply on account of their gender. They do not live in a society in which their degradation through sex is the dominant theme of the culture. They do not have to approach women sexually in fear or with distressing images or associations with their own oppression. The images they are likely to carry with them are those of women degraded and brutalised by men. In fact they are likely to have practised sexual arousal with such images, extensively, through pornography and fantasy. It is not surprising, then, that sexologists have identified women's 'inhibition' as the main sexual problem of this century. They have identified as healthy sexual feelings those which the male ruling class experiences and have chosen to avoid recognising the political reasons why women might feel differently.”
Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution

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