The things they say:
Speaking out against feminism....
"Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influencial neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength".
"When any
movement or ideology emphasizes rights as opposed to balance of rights with
responsibilities, you know you have a destructive force in the making."
"The women's
suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to
vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal
cause under the sun. Women are well
represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands."
"The First Blast
of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women".
John Knox c.1505-72: title of pamphlet (1558)
regiment 'rule or government over a country',
directed against the rule of Mary Tudor in England and Mary of Lorraine in
Scotland (as regent for her daughter Mary Queen of Scots)
“The Queen is most
anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this
mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which
her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and
propriety”.
"The axioms of
modern feminism are insulting to the very people I have the greatest duty and
desire to defend, and it should be obvious to anyone, whether he likes my
position or hates it, that it would be gutless and contemptible of me not to
fight modern feminism tooth and
nail, as hard as I
can, however little I may accomplish.
And I teach my boys to do the same."
David Gelernter
author of the book DRAWING LIFE: SURVIVING THE UNABOMBER.
Gelernter
is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale who was one of the unabomber's
victims. He was seriously injured by a mail bomb explosion: lost his right
hand, his right eye. The experience sent him into meditations about the state
of modern society, which he thinks is pretty bad. He asks how we got to this point and identified a takeover of
intellectuals in the late 1960s as the primary cause.
Nothing would induce me to vote for giving
women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such
importance.
Attributed to: Winston Churchill (1874–1965),
British prime minister and writer.
If you want to know I'm really tired of
feminists, sick of them. They've really dug themselves into their own grave.
Any man would be a fool who didn't agree with equal rights and pay, but some
women, now, juggling with career, lover, children, wifehood, have spread
themselves too thin, and are very unhappy.
Michael Douglas (1944– ), U.S. film actor.
You.
“Give women the vote, and in five years
there will be a crushing tax on bachelors”.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright.
On our family court system...
Judge Geoffrey Jones at Leicester County Court (UK) is on record as
saying:
"Have you got a
dog? Well, the bitch gets the puppies"
Nice to know the criteria by which custody decisions are made!
David Cannon
Shared Parenting
Information Group (UK)
http://home.clara.net/spig/
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more or less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master--that's all.'
"What
we are seeing today is nothing less than the criminalization of
fatherhood itself: criminal
penalties imposed on parents who have committed
no act
but are made outlaws through the actions of others in ways they are
powerless
to avoid. Once the father is stripped of custody, his contact
with his
own children outside government-approved times and locations
becomes
a criminal act. His criminalization is further consolidated through
forced
legal fees and impossible child-support burdens. "
"ONCE it's law
that a husband's pension is split between the couple after divorce, any
gold-digger needs only to divorce two daft men to end up with a better pension
than either".
"What
most people today perceive as an epidemic of irresponsible fathers may in
reality be the abuse of power by the state. At the very least there is a
conspicuous neglect by both policy makers and the media of the basic fact that
most of the 'absent fathers' who are excoriated so mercilessly are absent for
one reason: because they will be arrested if they are present. "
“The one great
principle of the English law is to make business for itself””
Our legislatures have turned into mills, grinding out useless laws in most all areas. At all points, legislation gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general. Certain kinds of legislation, inarguably, make things only more difficult for the very people we would like to help. This should be obvious to the average observer. But, what is not so obvious, are the problems brought on by such legislation which lie out of sight; and, when, finally felt by the general population, cannot be cured without a heavy dose of time and pain. The underlying problems, are these: that passing laws in areas where laws should not be passed will first bring disregard; and, then, will come contempt for the law followed by social disorder. This process of disregard and contempt, while brought on by bad law, will take its toll on all laws, some of which are very important to the continued functioning of society.
In re Agar-Ellis the judge stated "The right of the father to the custody and control of his child is one of the most sacred of rights. No doubt the law may take away from him this right but it must be for some sufficient cause known to the law."
(re Agar
-Ellis 1878 10 Ch.D.)
"There is nothing more sacred in the
wide world than the rights of others. They are inviolable....His right should
be his security; it should be stronger than any shield or fortress." (Kant
trans Infield 1963 p l93)
Due Process : USA style at: http://www.caught.net/caught/myths.htm
"First,
decide how we want the case to go. Second, formulate a legal logic to support
our decision. Third, manipulate, dissect or eliminate the facts and evidence to
support our decision. Then the rubber stamp doctrine of "judicial
discretion" will prevent most decisions from being overturned."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) :
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the
lawyers"
Henry VI, Part 2, Scene 2
the
JUDICIAL OATH: "I do swear by almighty God that I will well and truly serve
our sovereign lady queen Elizabeth the second in the office of judge and I will
do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm
without fear of favour, affection or ill will".
Barking Nazies, Feminazies, and Marxists
“It cannot therefore
be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life or that the
presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony or
cohesion”.
"Destroy the family and you destroy society "
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction. ...
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan....
The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.
A
Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI
"The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male."
"We live in a culture that condones and celebrates rape. Within a phallocentric, patriarchal state the rape of women by men is a ritual that daily perpetuates and maintains sexist oppression and exploitation. We cannot hope to transform "rape culture" without committing ourselves fully to resisting and eradicating patriarchy."
Bell Hooks, "Seduced by Violence No More," in Stan, Adele ed. Debating Sexual Correctness (New York, 1995) p.231.
"Patriarchy was accompanied by ...the ownership of persons, beginning with women and progressing to other forms of slavery, the institutions of class,caste,rank, ruling and propertied classes, the steady development of an unequally distributed wealth, and finally the state."
Eradicating the family
"The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women."
“No women should be authorized to stay at
home and raise her children…Women should not have that choice, because if there
is such a choice, too many women will make that one." Simone de
Beauvoir, Saturday Review, June 14, 1975.
"The first condition of the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex back into public industry, and this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society."
Alison Jagger writes that the nuclear family is "a cornerstone of woman’s oppression: it enforces women’s dependence on men, it enforces heterosexuality and it imposes the prevailing masculine and feminine character structures on the next generation."
Feminist Politics and Human Nature
"Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny... "
Cheryl Clarke, "Lesbianism, An Act of Resistance," in This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherrie Moraga (Women of Color Press,1983), pp.128-137.
I believe that the criminal is made and not born -- that people are basically good. The violent offenders who I've interviewed in the past have, by and large, come from very dysfunctional families. However, this doesn't mean if one comes from a dysfunctional family they'll grow up a criminal.
John Douglas (at 3:59pm
ET Online) FBI supersluth
"Sexual harassment legislation is an
instrument by which the micromanagement of everyday life is being undertaken.
The real aim is to change the relations between men and women in a fundamental
way. Why? Who benefits from this? The only people are those radical extremists
who want to disrupt male and female interactions, and they have done just that
in the workplace, the colleges, the high schools, the grade schools, and even
the kindergartens. Everybody is now on notice." Daphne Patai, Ph.D. Author
of Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism.
”By far the most important
channel of transmission of culture remains the family; and when family life
fails to play its part, we must expect our culture to deteriorate. Now the
family is an institution of which everybody speaks well: but it is advisable to
remember that this is a term that may vary in extension. In the present age it
means little more than the living members. Even of living members, it is a rare
exception when an advertisement depicts a large family of three generations:
the usual family on the hoardings consists of two parents and one or two young
children... But when I speak of the family, I have in mind a bond which
embraces a longer period of time than this: a piety towards the dead, however
obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote... Such an interest in
the past is different to the vanities and pretensions of genealogy; such a
responsibility for the future is different from that of the builder of social
programmes."
T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the
Definition of Culture, 1948.
“There is none so
great as he whose deepest desire is to be a good father”.
On the need for men to take action...
"We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed. That
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to altar or to abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness ....... But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their
future security."
(U.S. Congress, 1776.)
“Taxation without representation is tyranny”
James Otis 1725-83: watchword (c.1761) of the American Revolution; in Dictionary of American Biography
"What country can
preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that
their people preserve the spirit of resistance? The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its
natural manure”.
"The
germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an
irresponsible body - working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little
today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it's noiseless step like a thief
over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall render powerless the checks of
one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the
government from which we separated."
Thomas Jefferson :
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public
liberty.
Adams, John (1735 - 1826)
Notes for an Oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)
“You who wronged a simple man
Bursting into laughter at the crime,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date”.
Czeslaw Milosz Polish Nobel Prize-winner
It is
high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place which you have
dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your every
vice. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches and like Esau sell your country
for a mess of pottage and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of
money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there
one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my
horse. Gold is your God. Which of you has not battered your
conscience with bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least
care for the good of the commonwealth? Ye furdid prostitutes have you not
defiled this sacred place and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves by
your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably
odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here to get grievances
redressed; are not yourselves become the greatest the grievance? Your
country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean stable by putting a final
period to your iniquitous proceedings in this house and which by God's help and
the strength he has given me I am now come to do I command ye therefore upon
the peril of your lives to depart immediately out of this place... Go and
get out, make haste ye venal slaves be gone - so take away that shining bauble
there and lock up the doors."
O. Cromwell : "
part of Oliver Cromwell's speech (1599-1658)
when he dissolved The Long Parliament:-
“Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you
did”.
"A single, seemingly powerless person who
dares to cry out the word of truth
and to stand behind it with all his person and all his life, ready to pay a
high price, has, surprisingly, greater power, though formally disfranchised,
than do thousands of anonymous voters."
Vaclav Havel
" .... And she urged men to fight back. "I find myself increasingly shocked
at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of
our culture that it is hardly noticed. "
Feminist author Doris Lessing
championing men's rights at the Edinburgh book
festival Aug 2001
“An unjust law is no law at all”
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice." –
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win
without
bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so
costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all
the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may
be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory,
because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws!"
Tacitus (A.D. 55-130)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on
the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel
laureate
(1856-1950)
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Newtons 3rd Law of motion
On the need for men to be united...
“I think there is more
danger from disunion amongst ourselves than by anything from our enemies”.
“"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims. He wears their face. He wears their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly, and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is to be less feared."
And from the Feminazies...
These and many other such like statements are what have given the term feminist its present reputation. RadFems would go to any length to protect these 'holy' doctrines, shunning any woman that refuses to toe their party line. And together with the current 'Politically Correct' movement with its emphasis on group rights and group offences which conveniently gives 'victims' adequate reasons to attack their 'oppressors' without letting the so called oppressors defend themselves, the RadFem's can spread their misandrous beliefs without the inconvenience of their claims being subjected to scrutiny, in spite of the fact that today's argument is may be inconsistent with tomorrow's. In fact, any man who objects is called a 'typical male' misogynist (for opposing misandry, no less) and any woman who does is either 'too oppressed to see' or a 'traitor'. A proper 'feminist' (RadFem definition) would never criticize or disagree with another sister 'feminist'. No, she would just listen to it and agree, no matter how wrong she knows her 'sister' is. Luckily, very few women accept this.
The anti-male venom inherent in all RadFem writings and speeches are supported by half truths and outright lies presented as evidence to prove that there is a 'war against women' being waged by men everyday of a woman's life. The men include your father, brother, husband, lover, son, friend or even just the man walking across the street. Not some men, ALL men. These are some of their 'facts' that support their beliefs that ALL men are in some conspiracy to subjugate and oppress women:
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
Robin
Morgan - former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and
editor of MS magazine
( In response to Betty Friedan's comment that a woman who *wanted* to stay at home and raise her children should have the right to make that choice. )
"No, we don't believe that any woman should have this choice. No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make it."
Simone de Beauvior
The emancipation of women is practically
the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense
affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Ellen Key (1849–1926), The
Century of the Child.
Swedish reformer and educationalist.
I do not
wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759–1797), British writer and feminist.
Referring
to women.
A Vindication
of the Rights of Women.
Man and
Superman
"Preface".
We have
taken this action, because as women...we realize that the condition of our sex
is so deplorable that it is our duty even to break the law in order to call
attention to the reasons why we do so.
Emmeline Pankhurst
(1858–1928), British suffragette.
Speech in
court.
There
never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and
elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
(1820–1906), U.S. social reformer.
The
Arena "The
Status of Women, Past, Present and Future".
If
particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to
foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we
have no voice, or Representation.
Abigail Adams
(1744–1818), U.S. feminist.
Letter to
John Adams.
I
married beneath me—all women do.
Nancy
Astor (1879–1964), U.S.-born British politician, 1900.
Dictionary of National Biography 1961-1970.
I
believe that (in one form or another) castration may be the solution. And the
feminization of the white European and American is already far advanced, coming
in the wake of the war.
Wyndham
Lewis (1882–1957), British novelist and painter.
The Art of Being Ruled.
All
men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their
laws, and their codes.
Marilyn
French (1929– ), U.S. novelist and feminist.
The Women's Room. also in People, February 20, 1983.
In
the greater part of the world woman is a slave and a beast of burden.
Käthe
Schirmacher (1865–1930), German author and feminist.
The Modern Woman's Rights Movement.
Within
patriarchal society, women who are victimized by male violence have had to pay
a price for breaking the silence and naming the problem. They have had to be
seen as fallen women, who have failed in their "feminine" role to
sensitize and civilize the beast in the man.
bell
hooks (1952– ), U.S. feminist writer, poet, and educator.
Talking
Back
"violence in intimate relationships: a feminist perspective".
I
never said I was a dyke even to a dyke because there wasn't a dyke in the land
who thought she should be a dyke or even thought she was a dyke so how could we
talk about it.
Jill
Johnston (1929– ), British-born U.S. writer and feminist.
Lesbian
Nation: The Feminist Solution.
Probably
the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security
prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine
Greer (1939– ), Australian-born British writer and academic.
The
Female Eunuch "Security".
Woman
must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect
herself.
Susan
B. Anthony (1820–1906), U.S. social reformer.
Superiority
we've always had; all we ask is equality.
Nancy
Astor (1879–1964), U.S.-born British politician.
Referring
to women.
A
woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria
Steinem (1934– ), U.S. writer and feminist.
"The fact is that
the process of killing - both rape and battery are steps in that process- is
the prime sexual act for men in reality and/or in imagination,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 22.
"Man's discovery
that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of
the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of
fire, and the first crude stone ax,"
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, p. 5.
"All men benefit
from rape, because all men benefit from the fact that women are not free in
this society; that women cower; that women are afraid; that women cannot assert
the rights that we have, limited as those rights are, because of the ubiquitous
presence of rape,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 142.
"The newest
variations on this distressingly ancient theme center on hormones and DNA: men
are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their
DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 114.
"Our culture is
depicting sex as rape so that men and women will become interested in it,"
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 138.
"One can know
everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused
in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the
other is unthinkable and impossible,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 21.
"Cosmetic surgery
and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal
recourse to justice obsolete,"
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 55.
"Sex as desired
by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental,
urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation
of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is
sexualized made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual
desire,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 265.
"AIDS education will not get very far until young men are taught
how
not to rape young
women and how to eroticize trust and consent; and until
young women are
supported in the way they need to be redefining their desires,"
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 168.
"In everything
men make, they hollow out a central place for death,
let its rancid smell
contaminate every dimension of whatever still
survives. Men
especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit
it. They embrace
murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion meaning,
and action, as if
murder were solace, still their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and
alienation of their
lives,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 214.
"The dating
system is a mutually exploitative arrangement of sex-role expectations, which
limit and direct behavior of both parties and determine the character of the
relationship. Built into the concept of dating is the notion that the woman is
an object which may be purchased,"
Kurt Weis and Sandra S. Borges, Rape Victimology, p. 112.
"Under
patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love or to mother
children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the
inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman,"
Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p. 58.
"Patriarchy
requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain
itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the
street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation
of their home,"
Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, pp. 259-61.
"One of the
reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation-because that's
what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women
sexually available,"
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p.145.
"Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks,"
Andrea Dworkin in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995.
"I call it the
Noah Ark Syndrome. The perception lingers that human beings should go two by
two. Someone who is not married-either by choice or by chance-is somehow
regarded as abnormal,"
Patricia Ireland,
president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in Glamour, February 1997.
"Ninety-five
percent of women's experiences are about being a victim.Or about being an
underdog, or having to survive...women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up.
They are not Rambo,"
lesbian Jodie Foster in The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 1991, p. 19.
"Men who are
unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience,"
Life in Time, June
3,1991, p. 52.
"In a patriarchal
society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not
strong enough to give meaningful consent,"
Women's Studies, p.
129.
"We have long
known that rape has been a way of terrorizing us and keeping us in subjection.
Now we also know that we have participated, although unwittingly, in the rape
of our minds,"
Gerda Lerner (historian) in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, p. 55.
"If the classroom
situation is very heteropatriarchal - a large beginning class of 50 to 60
students say, with few feminist students - I am likely to define my task as
largely one of recruitment...of persuading students that women are
oppressed,"
Women Have Betrayed
Women, p. 92.
Intercourse with men
as we know them is increasingly impossible.
It requires an aborting of creativity and strength, a refusal of
responsibility and freedom: a bitter personal death. It means remaining the victim, forever annihilating all
self-respect. It means acting out the female role, incorporating the masochism,
self-hatred, and passivity which are central to it,"
Andrea Dworkin, Women Hating, p. 184.
"Compare victims'
reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike....[T]he
major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the
normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with
it, "
Catherine
MacKinnon, quoted in Christina Hoff Sommers, "Hard-Line Feminists Guilty
of Ms.-Representation,"
Wall Street Journal, November 7, 1991.
The
following obviously misandrous quotes are from the leading icons of RadFems,
from their mouths and their writings. And every RadFem believes these
statements as if they were the gospel.
"One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible,"
Andrea
Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 21.
"One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available,"
Andrea
Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 145.
"In everything men make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, still their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives,"
Andrea
Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 214.
"Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire,"
Andrea
Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 265.
In fucking, as in
reproduction, sex and economics are inextricably joined. In male-supremacist
cultures, women are believed to embody carnality; women are sex. A man wants
what a woman has--sex. He can steal it [prostitution], lease it over the long
term marriage [marriage in the United States], or own it outright [marriage in
most societies]. A man can do some or all of the above, over and over again.
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone
"Under patriarchy,
no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under
patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy,
every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under
patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable
rapist or exploiter of another woman,"
Andrea Dworkin,
Liberty, p. 58.
"Romance is rape
embellished with meaningful looks,"
Andrea Dworkin in
the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995.
"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies." "Rape is the primary heterosexual model for sexual relating. Rape is the primary emblem of romantic love. Rape is the means by which a woman is initiated into her womanhood as it is defined by men....Rape, then, is the logical consequence of a system of definitions of what is normative. Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the culture defines it.
Rape, then, is the logical consequence of a system of definitions of what is normative. Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the culture defines it."
Andrea Dworkin
- The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door
"Rape is the primary heterosexual model for sexual relating. Rape is the primary emblem of romantic love. Rape is the means by which a woman is initiated into her womanhood as it is defined by men.
"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
Andrea Dworkin
"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire, and the first crude stone axe,"
Susan
Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, p. 5.
"[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear"
Susan
Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, P.6
"Our culture is depicting sex as rape so that men and women will become interested in it,"
Naomi
Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 138.
"Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete,"
Naomi
Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 55.
"AIDS education will not get very far until young men are taught how not to rape young women and how to eroticize trust and consent; and until young women are supported in the way they need to be redefining their desires,"
Naomi
Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 168.
"The dating system is a mutually exploitative arrangement of sex-role expectations, which limit and direct behavior of both parties and determine the character of the relationship. Built into the concept of dating is the notion that the woman is an object which may be purchased,"
Kurt Weis
and Sandra S. Borges, Rape Victimology, p. 112.
"Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home,"
Gloria
Steinem in Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, pp. 259-61.
"I call it the Noah Ark Syndrome. The perception lingers that human beings should go two by two. Someone who is not married-either by choice or by chance- is somehow regarded as abnormal,"
Patricia Ireland, president of the
National Organization for Women (NOW) in Glamour, February 1997.
"My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter."
Marilyn French
Author, "The Women's Room"
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience,"
Catherine
Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p.
52.
"We have long known that rape has been a way of terrorizing us and keeping us in subjection. Now we also know that we have participated, although unwittingly, in the rape of our minds,"
Gerda
Lerner in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, p. 55.
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal- a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students say, with few feminist students- I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed,"
Professor
Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have
Betrayed Women, p. 92.
"Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers."
Robin
Morgan, (current editor of MS magazine)
The phallic malady is epidemic and systemic... each individual male in the patriarchy is aware of his relative power in the scheme of things.... He knows that his actions are supported by the twin pillars of the State of man - the brotherhood ritual of political exigency and the brotherhood ritual of a sexual thrill in dominance. As a devotee of Thanatos, he is one with the practitioner of sado-masochistic "play" between "consenting adults," as he is one with the rapist.
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony.
Sex to this point in my life has been trivial, at best a gesture of tenderness, at worst a chore. I couldn't understand the furor about it.
Did she die of the disease called "family" or the disease called "rehabilitation", of poverty or drugs or pornography, of economics or sexual slavery or a broken body?
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire." --
Robin Morgan,
in 1974
...rape is the perfected act of male sexuality in a patriarchal culture-- it is the ultimate metaphor for domination, violence, subjugation, and possession.
Robin Morgan
"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."
Robin Morgan
"And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism--the lie that there can be such a thing as 'men's liberation groups.' Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a 'threatening' characteristic shared by the latter group--skin color or sex or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed FUCKED UP by being masters (racism hurts whites, sexual stereotypes are harmful to men) but those masters are not OPPRESSED. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no alternative--for they have no power--but to fight. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers."
Robin Morgan
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Robin
Morgan, "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" in "Going to
Far," 1974.
"And in the spectrum of male bahavior, rape, the perfect combination of sex and violence, is the penultimate (sic) act. Erotic pleasure cannot be separated from culture, and in our culture male eroticism is wedded to power."
Susan Griffin
Rape: The Politics of Consciousness
"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual [male], it may be mainly a quantitative difference."
Susan Griffin
"Rape: The All-American Crime"
When asked: "You [Greer] were once quoted as saying your idea of the ideal man is a woman with a dick. Are you still that way inclined?"
Dr Greer (denying that she said it): "I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damanged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they're doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they're manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop.
"I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don't take place anywhere near an ovum. I don't know that the ecosphere can tolerate it."
Germaine
Greer, at a Hilton Hotel literary lunch, promoting her book "The Change--
Women, Aging and the Menopause". From a newsreport dated 14/11/91.
"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist"
Ti-Grace
Atkinson "Amazon Odyssey" (p. 86)
"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..."
Sheila Jeffrys
"Number 10: Regularly beat him on the head with your shoe."
"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men."
Sharon
Stone On David Letterman presenting a top ten list of ways to keep your man.
"Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive...women didn't go to Vietnam and blow up things up. They are not Rambo,"
Jodie
Foster in The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 1991, p. 19.
"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent,"
Catherine
MacKinnon in Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of
Women's Studies, p. 129.
"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. You might think thats too broad. I'm not talking about sending all of you men to jail for that."
Catherine
MacKinnon "A Rally Against Rape" Feminism Unmodified
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
Former
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
MALE: ... represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. 'The first males were mutants... the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female.'
MAN: ... an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched ... a contradictory baby-man ...
TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning."'
from A Feminist Dictionary", ed.
Kramarae and Treichler, Pandora Press, 1985
Letter to the Editor: "Women's Turn to Dominate"
"To Proud Feminist, (Herald-Sun, 7 February). Your last paragraph is shocking language from a feminist. You use the entrenched, revolting male stereotypes of women and rationalise your existence by saying you are neither "ugly" nor "manless", as though either of these male-oriented judgments matter.
"Clearly you are not yet a free-thinking feminist but rather one of those women who bounce off the male-dominated, male-controlled social structures.
"Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I'll run you down."
Signed:
Liberated Women, Boronia - Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia - 9 February 1996
Some feminists object to the nuclear family. Some examples
Judith Stacey
The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.
Toni Morrison
The little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. "Only with the occasional celebrity crime do we allow ourselves to think the nearly unthinkable: that the family may not be the ideal and perfect living arrangement after all -- that it can be a nest of pathology and a cradle of gruesome violence," she writes. "Even in the ostensibly 'functional,' nonviolent family, where no one is killed or maimed, feelings are routinely bruised and often twisted out of shape. There is the slap or the put-down that violates a child's shaky sense of self, the cold, distracted stare that drives a spouse to tears, the little digs and rivalries."
Barbara
Ehrenreich, as quoted by Stephen Chapman, from Time
"long and honorable tradition of 'anti-family' thought," waxing nostalgic for those early feminists who regarded marriage as just another version of prostitution. This deeply defective institution "can hardly be the moral foundation of everything else," she argues, pining for the day when "someone invents a sustainable alternative."
Barbara
Ehrenreich, as quoted by Stephen Chapman, from Time
"The nuclear family is a hotbed of violence and depravity."
"How will the family unit be destroyed? ... the demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare."
From
Female Liberation by Roxanne Dunbar.
"Feminists have long criticized marriage as a place of oppression, danger, and drudgery for women."
From article,
"Is Marriage the Answer?" by Barbara Findlen, Ms magazine, May-June,
1995
"The Feminists -v- The Marriage License Bureau of the State of New York...All the discriminatory practices against women are patterned and rationalized by this slavery-like practice. We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
From
Sisterhood Is Powerful, Morgan (ed), 1970 p. 537.
"most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children."
From Phyllis
Chesler, Women and Madness, p. 294
"...I submit that any sexual intercourse between a free man and a human being he owns or controls is rape."
Alice
Walker in "Embracing the Dark and the Light," Essence, July 1982. As cited
in Andrea Dworkin's "Right-Wing Women"
The context of the quote in RWW makes it clear that marriage is such a form of control.
"Our research and most other studies show that wife-battering occurs in 50 percent of families throughout the nation."
Lenore Walker,
speaking at a Laguna Beach conference, as reported in the SF Chronicle
The SF Chronicle comments, "Only the most crazed man-hater could believe that."
Lenore Walker, after visiting one of the early shelters for battered women, wrote "I was struck by what a beneficial alternative to the nuclear family this arrangement [communal housing and child raising] was for these women and children."
"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ... "Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests. ...
Functions of the Family, Linda Gordon, W