“Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.” MenHumansHappensIndividualSocialAnimalPracticeFemaleInstitutionsMalesDefinitionsFeministAttractionOppressionAttachmentExploitationEroticHuman AnimalHeterosexualitySocial InstitutionsMale FemaleHeterosexuality Is Author:Marilyn Frye
“I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.” KnowsClassMorningLike YouMembersPrivilegeYou ChooseDominantPrivilegedHeterosexualityHeterosexuality Is Book:Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992 Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
“There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality.” ThinkingProductsPressureDeniedArtificialPatriarchyHeterosexualityHeterosexuality Is Book:Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992 Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
