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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Dworkin NEVER said "all sex is rape" [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)"Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman,"
-Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p.58
"One can know everything and still not accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that one without the imminent possibility of the other is unthinkable and impossible."
-Andrea Dworkin, Letters from the Warzone, p. 21
"...Men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their DNA in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape."
-Andrea Dworkin
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
-Catherine MacKinnon
"Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike....The major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it."
-Catherine MacKinnon
"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
-Catherine MacKinnon
Should I keep going?