Status Updates From Heterossexualidade Compulsó...

“pornography… a multibillion-dollar industry with the power to disseminate increasingly sadistic, women-degrading images... [depicting] women as objects of sexual appetite devoid of emotional context, without individual meaning or personality. Essentially a sexual commodity to be consumed by men. (Relate to so-called lesbian pornography, created for the male voyeuristic eye.)”

“…women have been convinced that marriage and sexual orientation toward men are inevitable even if unsatisfying or oppressive-components of their lives.”

“the fact that we are confronting not a simple maintenance of inequality …but a pervasive cluster of forces, ranging from physical brutality to control of consciousness… suggests that an enormous potential counterforce is having to be restrained.”

The denial of reality and invisibility to women’s passion for women, women’s choice of women as allies, life companions, and community, the forcing of such relationships into dissimulation and their disintegra-tion under intense pressure have meant an incalculable loss to the power of all women to change the social relations of the sexes, to liberate ourselves and each other.

“I have had very bad relationships with men—I am now in the midst of a very painful separation. I am trying to find my strength through women— without my friends, I could not survive.” How many times a day do women speak words like these or think them or write them, and how often does the synapse reassert itself?

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