In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, and all sorts of possibility.Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin has been instrumental in efforts to curtail pornography by defining it as a violation of women's civil rights and allowing individual women to sue the distributors for damages. In the hands of women, money stays literal. Whatever he does to maintain ownership is also natural, and it is action originating in an ethic that is in no sense relative. The fifth tenet of male supremacy is the presumption that the male’s right to own the female and her issue is natural, predating history. All feminist arguments are against assertions or premises inherent in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. Men define the parameters of every subject. Men have the power of naming, which is a great and sublime power. The acts of terror run the gamut from rape to battery to sexual abuse of children to war to murder to maiming to torture to enslaving.
Power is the capacity to terrorize, to use self and strength to inculcate fear, fear in a whole class of persons. The physical strength of men is not as important as the ideology that sacralizes and celebrates it. The second tenet of male supremacy is that men are physically stronger than women, and as a result, have dominion over them. The male self is not just subjectively felt but protected by laws and customs. The first tenet of male-supremacist ideology is that men have a self that exists separate from women, and that women must by definition lack a self. Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 1 #4 Men have the power of naming, which is a great and sublime power. #3 Power is the capacity to terrorize, to use self and strength to inculcate fear, fear in a whole class of persons. #2 The second tenet of male supremacy is that men are physically stronger than women, and as a result, have dominion over them.
#1 The first tenet of male-supremacist ideology is that men have a self that exists separate from women, and that women must by definition lack a self. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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