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Let's look at these "quotes:"
“I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
Going too far (Open Library)
I can already feel this one is taken out of context, since it's from a book about all different attitudes of feminism. I don't know the context, cause the book ain't there. I can't find the context, cause the book ain't free.
“To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” -– Valerie Solanas
Already talked about this one.
“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” — Andrea Dworkin
First of all, if you look up this quote or try to find out where it's from, all you get is page after page of anti-feminist sites making reference to this passage, but not referencing which writing this is included. That being said, I can't find it. How do I actually even know she said it, let alone figure out the context?
That being said, since it's Dworkin, if this is a true quote, she was most like talking about pornography in that sense that women are portrayed this. The "I want to see..." is a proactive statement meant to show how this type of imagery is used against women not men. That would be first my assumption. But since I can't even find out which writing this quote is even from, I can't even examine it.
“Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” — Susan Brownmiller
Against Our Will
Written in 1971. She talks about from prehistoric times leading to '71. Just to give you an idea of the history of rape and so fourth at this time:
"Since the 1970s many changes have occurred in the perception of sexual assault due in large part to the feminist movement and its public characterization of rape as a crime of power and control rather than purely of sex. In some countries the women's liberation movement of the 1970s created the first rape crisis centers. This movement was led by the National Organization for Women (NOW). One of the first two rape crisis centers, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center ([4]), opened in 1972."
History of rape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the majority of the world, women have no access to any legitimate civil recourse towards a rape, and might actually themselves be charged with a crime.
That being said. I don't agree with her wording that 'all men' do anything to 'all women.'
“The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone
An actress... really?
“In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.” — Catherine MacKinnon
[FONT=Trebuchet MS,Bookman Old Style,Arial]Claim: Feminist Catharine MacKinnon said "All sex is rape."
Status: False.
snopes.com: Catherine MacKinnon 'All Sex is Rape' Quote
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“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart
Again, can't find it. Anywhere on the internet. I can't find the article she supposedly wrote. The only real place I see reference to is Wikipedia, but the guy who mentioned it just added and didn't put any reference to it. So I have no way of even confirming if this is real or not.
In fact, since I couldn't confirmed (and since it isn't referenced) a Wiki member can remove the claim. So I did.
Sally Miller Gearhart: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience.” – Catherine Comins
Yea, I legitimately can't say anything about that one. The only thing I can say is that isn't a feminist writer or someone anyone looks to for feminism. She's just "assistant dean of student life at Vassar." And that was interview in a newspaper, not writing. She doesn't write anything.
“All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French
French's 1977 novel, The Women's Room, follows the lives of Mira and her friends in 1950s and 1960s America, including Val, a militant radical feminist. The novel portrays the details of the lives of women at this time and also the feminist movement of this era in the United States. At one point in the book the character Val says "all men are rapists". This quote has often been incorrectly attributed to Marilyn French herself. French's first book was a thesis on James Joyce.
Marilyn French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her character said in a fictional novel, not her.
“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” — Germaine Greer.
“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. The problem of recidivism ought to have shown young men like John Greenaway just what sort of a notion security is, but there is no indication that he would understand it. Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Human beings are better equipped to cope with disaster and hardship than they are with unvarying security, but as long as security is the highest value in a community they can have little opportunity to decide this for themselves.” - Greer, The Female Eunuch
Grasping for more straws in fictional works that really have nothing to do with feminism at all! My goodness, what a shock.
Okay, so like 2 or maybe 3 of those quotes mean anything like what it insists it means. Not very easy to find 2 or 3 amongst thousands of feminist texts.
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