Being A Jew, One Learns

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 Women: And All The Women Say It Is So.

Sex As Desired By The Class That Dominates Women Is Held By That Class To Be Elemental, Urgent, Necessary, Even If Or Even Though It Appears To Require The Repudiation Of Any Claim Women Might Have To Full Human Standing. In The Subordination Of Women, Inequality Itself Is Sexualized, Made Into The Experience Of Sexual Pleasure, Essential To Sexual Desire.

...in Every Realm Of Male Expression And Action, Violence Is Experienced And Articulated As Love And Freedom.

Every Three Minutes A Woman Is Being Raped. Every Eighteen Seconds A Woman Is Being Beaten. There Is Nothing Abstract About It. It Is Happening Right Now As I Am Speaking.

As I See It, Our Revolutionary Task Is To Destroy Phallic Identity In Men And Masochistic Non-identity In Women--that Is, To Destroy The Polar Realities Of Men And Women As We Now Know Them So That This Division Of Human Flesh Into Two Camps--one An Armed Camp And The Other A Concentration Camp--is No Longer Possible. Phallic Identity Is Real And It Must Be Destroyed. Female Masochism Is Real And It Must Be Destroyed.