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“If she wants him sexually he names her slut; if she does not want him he rapes her and says she does; if she would rather study or paint he names her repressed and brags he can cure her pathological interests with the apocryphal “good fuck.”
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
“Every accommodation that women make to
this domination, however apparently stupid, self-defeating, or dangerous, is rooted in the urgent need to survive somehow on male
terms. Inevitably this causes women to take the rage and contempt
they feel for the men who actually abuse them, those close to
them, and project it onto others, those far away, foreign, or different.”
― Right-Wing Women
this domination, however apparently stupid, self-defeating, or dangerous, is rooted in the urgent need to survive somehow on male
terms. Inevitably this causes women to take the rage and contempt
they feel for the men who actually abuse them, those close to
them, and project it onto others, those far away, foreign, or different.”
― Right-Wing Women
“Would we have to be so grandiose, so arrogant, so unfeminine, as to believe that the streets we walk on, the homes we live in, the beds we sleep in, are ours— belong to us— really belong to us: we decide what is right and what is wrong and if something hurts us, it stops. It is, of course, gauche to be too sincere about these things, and it is downright ridiculous to be serious. Intelligent people are well mannered and moderate, even in pursuing freedom. Smart women whisper and say please.”
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
“Tony told the psychiatrists /he/ liked to crash cars into walls for sexual pleasure and also that he wanted to kill women because he thought looking into their eyes as they died would make him feel normal.
"Where did you get that one from?" I asked Tony.
"A biography of Ted Bundy," Tony replied. "I found it in the prison library."
I nodded and thought it probably wasn't a great idea for prison libraries to stock books about Ted Bundy.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
"Where did you get that one from?" I asked Tony.
"A biography of Ted Bundy," Tony replied. "I found it in the prison library."
I nodded and thought it probably wasn't a great idea for prison libraries to stock books about Ted Bundy.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“Antifeminism breaks down into contempt for particular kinds of women—as men envision the kinds of women there are. There is a spectrum of insult. Lesbians, intellectuals, and uppity women are hated for their resumption, their arrogance, their masculine ambition. Prudes, spinsters, and celibates may not
want to be like men but they seem able to live without them; so they are treated with contempt and disdain. Sluts, “nymphos, ” and tarts are hated because they are cheap, not expensive, and because they are their sex raw or sex itself.”
― Right-Wing Women
want to be like men but they seem able to live without them; so they are treated with contempt and disdain. Sluts, “nymphos, ” and tarts are hated because they are cheap, not expensive, and because they are their sex raw or sex itself.”
― Right-Wing Women
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