“The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.” MenHas BeensDifferentFormEnergyDifferencesDependsMalesAffectionRecognitionBehaviourMasculinityDominanceGlueBondingDrainedComradeshipMale Dominance 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
“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
“Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry based upon such images viable, would require the reconstruction of women's sexuality into a ruling-class sexuality. In an egalitarian society objectification would not exist and therefore the particular buzz provided by pornography, the excitement of eroticised dominance for the ruling class, would be unimaginable.” MenEnoughWould BeNumbersClassParticularIndustrySexyGenderSexualityInequalityPropagandaExcitementPassiveRulingPornographyDominanceBuzzReconstructionUnimaginableObjectification Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“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
“Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.” IfsMenWellsHas BeensIdeasViewsPositionMastersAdvantageCharacteristicsJustifyBiologyRulingCastes Book:Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
