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If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.


Margaret Cho


#denying #existence #feminist #own #say

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. That view is nonremorseful and not rehabilitative. It may also be true. It seems to me that we have here a convergence between the rapists's view of what he has done and the victim's perspective on what was done to her. That is, for both, their ordinary experiences of heterosexual intercourse and the act of rape have something in common. Now this gets us into immense trouble, because that's exactly how judges and juries see it who refuse to convict men accused of rape. A rape victim has to prove that it was not intercourse. She has to show that there was force and that she resisted, because if there was sex, consent is inferred. Finders of fact look for "more force than usual during the preliminaries". Rape is defined by distinction from intercourse - not nonviolence, intercourse. They ask, does this event look more like fucking or like rape? But what is their standard for sex, and is this question asked from the women's point of view? The level of force is not adjudicated at her point of violation; it is adjudicated at the standard for the normal level of force. Who sets this standard?


Catharine A. MacKinnon


#feminist-theory #intercourse #law #patriarchy #piv

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.


Jessie Ware


#feminist #i #i am #like #some

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.


Andrea Dworkin


#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.


Rush Limbaugh


#california #call #challenges #coined #davis

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.


Marissa Mayer


#capable #certainly #chip #comes #consider

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.


Elizabeth Moon


#feminist #her #interestingly #mind #mother

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.


Marvin Olasky


#commensurate #discrimination #feminists #gain #jobs

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.


Doris Lessing


#done #feminist #i #movement #much

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.


Phyllis Schlafly


#instead #ladies #like #men #say