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You mean he *merely* made women’s employment contingent upon their tolerance of his sexual overtures and imposition of gendered indignity? Remembering that this used to be the kind of thing women could complain and even sue over suddenly sounds like an unheard of luxury. …

Thank you!!

Everywhere I go, they say, “sir! Sir!”

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

The way this line of inquiry was hammered out of academic fields, despite its self-evident role in political life, is downright anti- intellectual.

I don’t see any reason to mediate your Dworkin leanings on this issue. She was right and she was punished pretty brutally for it.

Personally I feel that this rhetoric depicting pregnancy, motherhood, and children themselves all as evidence of women’s sexual degradation is pretty bleak all around.

In bed with who, you say?

Sometimes I think they mean “middle aged.”

Violence against women predates both imperialism and extractive industry, Kenny.

I’m talking about his claim.

It’s not “I didn’t do this.” It’s “I get to do this.”

“If this was true, I would be in jail,” is not meant to convince you that this man did not commit gender violence. It is meant to remind you that we have collectively decided that gender violence will be de facto invisible to the law.

Almost like they imagine women to have some sort of immovable debt or duty that the lesbian refuses ... what could it be .... hang on I'm sure it will come to me ...

It is ... interesting to me that in a world that offers no shortage of gender violence, what seems like the greatest emergency to these people is women who merely absent themselves from men.

Straight marriage had to change a whole lot over the latter half of the 20th century before gay marriage could become thinkable.

Thank you, Zack, this is what I was looking for.

Counterpoint: it’s a real threat and that’s good

Like I don’t want to scare you guys but the ways you think about cis men and women aren’t right either !!!!