Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. Catharine MacKinnon More Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon More Quotes From Catharine MacKinnon Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed. Catharine MacKinnon utterancepowerbelieve Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. Catharine MacKinnon feministgovernmentgoal Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity. Catharine MacKinnon growing-uppainfather Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children. Catharine MacKinnon homelesschildrensex Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial. Catharine MacKinnon bodyusemen Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed. Catharine MacKinnon mouthswantmen If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality. Catharine MacKinnon pornographysexualityifs It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down. Catharine MacKinnon benefitsstandingforce Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. Catharine MacKinnon gratefulsurvivalself The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan. Catharine MacKinnon feministchristianmen Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism. Catharine MacKinnon feminismsexualityfeminist Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. Catharine MacKinnon dominancemensex The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent. Catharine MacKinnon existenceshouldreality Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. Catharine MacKinnon man-hatermisandrysex What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. Catharine MacKinnon malesdefensegiving So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. Catharine MacKinnon aquariumsdawnideas You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. Catharine MacKinnon growing-uppainfather If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world. Catharine MacKinnon donehurtlooks Women are raped and coerced into sex. Catharine MacKinnon sex People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals. Catharine MacKinnon relationpeople
