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Quote by Kate Millett

“Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard”

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Kate Millett is an American writer and feminist, born on September 14, 1934. Her works hold significant status in the field of feminist literature, with notable titles including 'Sexual Politics' and 'Scapegoat'. more

“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.”

Men Has Beens Different Form Energy Differences Depends Males Affection Recognition Behaviour Masculinity Dominance Glue Bonding Drained Comradeship Male Dominance

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.”

Ifs Would Be Males Educate Surprising Pornography

Book:Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

“Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.”

“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.”

Men Teach Practice Objects Abuse Feminist Propaganda Analysis Pornography Degradation

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.”

Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

“Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.”

Opposites Absence Masculinity Femininity Binary

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

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