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In reply to the discussion: If you think Feminism is not pro men, [View all]Major Nikon
(36,925 posts)So sure she allows for the possibility for sex (coitus) which isn't rape, but that wasn't her idea of what's happening. She also considers intercourse as it exists as a form of slavery and exploitation.
Intercourse
"Violation is a synonym for intercourse."
"intercourse - appears to be the key to woman's lower human status"
"Liberals refuse categorically to inquire into even a possibility that there is a relationship between intercourse per se and the low status of women"
"Intercourse occurs in a power relation that is pervasive and incontrovertible"
"The measure of women's oppression is that we do not take intercourse - entry, penetration, occupation - and ask or say what it means: to us as a dominated group or to us as a potentially free and self determining people."
"In the experience of intercourse, she loses the capacity for integrity because her body - the basis for privacy and freedom in the material world for all human beings is entered and occupied; the boundaries of her physical body are - neutrally speaking - violated."
"Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women;"
"Can intercourse exist without women turning themselves into a thing, which she must do because men cannot fuck equals and men must fuck: because one price of dominance is that one is impotent in the face of equality?"
"If objectification is necessary for intercourse to be possible, what does that mean for the person who needs to be fucked so that she can experience herself as female and who needs to be an object so she can be fucked?"
"Whatever intercourse is, it is not freedom; and if it cannot exist without objectification, it never will be"
"It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for all women: and all the women say it is so"