“The sexual degradation of women has long been accompanied by laughter. If misogyny has a soundtrack, it is canned laughter.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Gender is to sexism as woman is to misogyny. Sexism and gender are male friendly neo liberal words. “Won’t somebody please think of the men?” because they are, apparently, equal to women in their oppression by sexism and gender. The male elite of the new world order are actually victims of heterosexual masculinity. It would make as much sense to replace ‘white supremacy’ with the concept of ‘racially based discrimination’, or ‘ruling class oppression’ with the concept of ‘economically based prejudice’. The tactic is about obscuring forms of violence which, despite the laboriously pompous deconstructions of identity politics, are still identity based.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Telling rape jokes or laughing at women being brutalised has become a sign of virility and a marker of masculine freedom. In this context, raping women becomes a status enhancing smashing of the feminising legal restraints imposed on male sexuality. The trending of rape jokes on the internet also gains cool currency precisely because the internet is seen as a feral outlaw social technology, anarchic carnival space where every kind of subversion is permitted and defended in the name of freedom of speech – for those men who have access to the playground, at least.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Rape jokes are very far from rebellious, subversive, or oppositional. They are fascist salutes to male supremacy. Laughing about the sexual (and thus the physical, emotional, and psychological) torture of females, signals one’s servile obedience to the misogynistic status quo.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Rape humour signals that rape culture has escaped the law. The laughter is malicious affirmation of a culture that recognises that, although rape might officially be a crime, the majority of rapists walk free without even having to endure the discomfort of being accused by victims or publicly or privately shamed.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Rape humour signals that the victim blaming which feminists have fought against for decades has triumphed and that the sexual assault of women is permissible because victims inhabit a culture in which their suffering invites, not compassion, but a predatory, malicious laughter.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Author:Abigail Bray
“Every gun, warship, jet and bomb is also a theft from women as a sex class. There is more than enough money for public education, health, state funded day care systems, food and other necessities; there is more than enough money to protect single mothers and their children from deadly forms of poverty and social exclusion. There is more than enough money. Austerity is the propaganda of the new fascism which delivers violent budget cuts against its own citizens just as it ramps up global inequality and steadily arms itself with weapons of mass murder.” FeminismMisogynyWomen S RightsWomen S LiberationRadical Feminism Book:Misogyny Re-Loaded Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded