“The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.” DesireOppositesFeministHomosexualSameness Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.” MenTeachPracticeObjectsAbuseFeministPropagandaAnalysisPornographyDegradation Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.” BitsClassFeminismApproachAimMalesFeministGenderRadicalBehaviourMasculinityFemininityRulingFlexibleFrameworkDominanceSubordinatesRadical FeminismTheoristsRationaleAbolitionistRadical FeministMale Dominance Book:Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“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.” MenSexTermPositionMembersDeserveFemaleFeministDuesHonourSurvivedTransgenderCastesSubordinationPronouns Book:Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.” MenShouldHas BeensSocialSexUnderstandingIndustryInstitutionsDefinitionsFeministProfessionMedicalBehaveRemoveMasculinePsychoanalysisMedical ProfessionSocial Control Author:Sheila Jeffreys
