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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

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Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike

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If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

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Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent.

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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.

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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.

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An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

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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.

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The major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it.

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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.

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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.

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

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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.

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