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Why do Sumo wrestlers shave their legs?
So they won't be mistaken for feminists.
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"From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has
played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a
conscious process of intimidation by which ALL MEN keep ALL WOMEN in a
state of fear." [Original emphasis.]
Susan Brownmiller, "Against Our Will," p.5 (1975)
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"Red Riding Hood is a parable of rape... The utter passivity of
Red Riding Hood in the teeth of the wolf is outdone by Sleeping
Beauty... " (p.344).
"Ayn Rand... is an example of the ways in which a strong, male-
directed woman accommodates herself to what she considers to be
superior male thought... Rand becomes... a traitor to her own sex" (p.
350).
Susan Brownmiller, "Against Our Will," (1975).
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"Prohibitions against a fighting female go back to the Bible...
The inhibition against striking out [in karate] proved to become a
greater hindrance to our becoming fighting women than our pathetic
underdeveloped muscles. ...And yet, and yet... we women discovered in
wonderment that as we learned to place our kicks and jabs with
precision we were actually able to inspire fear in the men. We COULD
hurt them, we learned to our astonishment, at the core of their sexual
being..."
Susan Brownmiller, "Against Our Will," pp. 452-4 (1975)
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[Some of the reviews of Brownmiller's opus:
NEW YORK TIMES: "Eye-opening... A consciousness-raising session that
should force both men and women to agonize over their
assumptions."
VILLAGE VOICE: "A major work of history, a classic... A landmark work
in the literature of awareness..."
BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH-CLUB: "Readers come away from the book ... with
courage... to confront memories, to live, to act."
NEWSWEEK: "The most comprehensive study of rape ever offered to the
public..."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "An overwhelming indictment. We need it, it is a
hideous revelation and it should be required reading."]
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"There is a strong psycho-sexual element that we have to address
if we're to end the arms race. All you have to do is to look at the
language of nuclear war. `Missile erector.' `Terminal Thrust.' `Deep
penetration.' `Hard targets and soft targets.' What's that all about?"
Helen Caldicott
Speech to National Women's Conference to End
Nuclear War (out of bounds for men), Wash., DC, Sept. 1984
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"The political meaning of intercourse for women is the fundamen-
tal question of freedom. Can an occupied people -- physically occupied
inside, internally invaded -- be free; can those with a metaphysically
compromised privacy have self determination; can those without biolo-
gically-based physical integrity have self respect?"
Andrea Dworkin, "Intercourse," (Book, 1987)
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"We tried to make people proud of who they were. That wasn't so
bad when the gays and lesbians felt a sense of self-worth. But then
the sadomasochists came out of the closet and became proud of them-
selves." Susan Brownmiller, 1987
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"In rejecting sexual repression and hypocrisy, pornography
expresses a radical impulse." Ellen Willis,
writer for The Village Voice
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"The Judeo-Christian religion has been very woman hating. I don't
know if sanitizing it is such a good idea. Women should know where the
real tradition comes from." Karen de Crow,
writer for Penthouse
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"I just lay there on my back on the floor of the studio and put
my knees over my head. I was shot from there. So that all you can see
is legs, a huge bottom, like a great apple, a c*nt, an anus and a
face." Germaine Greer,
internationally acclaimed feminist,
author of "The Female Eunuch," reminiscing on the picture
she chose for the first issue of her magazine "Suck."
(Quoted in COMMENTARY October 1988)
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"People are now blaming me for the sexual revolution, but in fact
it was not done by me, but by Hugh Hefner." Germaine Greer
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"Men have reaped more from than their share of benefits form
women's liberation. If a woman gets pregnant, the man who 20 years
might have married her may today feel that he is gallant if he splits
the costs of abortion." Dierdre English, former
executive editor of Mother Jones
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