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Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History

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“La misoginia, nonché l'odio di genere e il senso di avversione nei confronti della compagine femminile, ci ha forgiate nel nome della sottomissione forzata. Ridotte al silenzio, sentendoci in colpa perché ancora vive, abbiamo accolto remissivamente una vita infelice.”

“pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that pornography is captivity—the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he’s got her.”

“Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of the Milky Way. Dragons in school desks. Dragons in cars. Dragons doing dishes. Dragons downing missiles. Dragons laying waste to armies or governments or home economics classrooms. There were no words. No explanations. No statements of intent. Just dragons.”