Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine Alice MacKinnonis an American radical feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth7 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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men mouths want
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
growing-up pain father
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
grateful self survival
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.
growing-up pain father
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.
benefits force standing
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
sex children homeless
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
men use denial
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
government goal feminist
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
ideas dawn essentials
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
matter able nonsense
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
sex couple radical-feminism
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
sex violence enough
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
sex moving men
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
mean abuse done
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.