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“I think that sexual desire in women, at least in this culture, is socially constructed as that by which we come to want our own self-annihilation. That is, our subordination is eroticized in and as female; in fact, we get off on it to a degree. I'm saying femininity as we know it is how we come to want male dominance, which most emphatically is not in our interest.” — Catharine A. MacKinnon

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I think that sexual desire in women, at least in this culture, is socially constructed as that by which we come to want our own self-annihilation. That is, our subordination is eroticized in and as female; in fact, we get off on it to a degree. I'm saying femininity as we know it is how we come to want male dominance, which most emphatically is not in our interest.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon