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Perhaps Patriarchy's Greatest Psychological Weapon Is Simply Its Universality And Longevity. ... Patriarchy Has A Still More Tenacious Or Powerful Hold Through Its Successful Habit Of Passing Itself Off As Nature.

How Crazy Craziness Makes Everyone, How Irrationally Afraid. The Madness Hidden In Each Of Us, Called To, Identified, Aroused Like A Lust. And Against That The Jaw Sets. The More I Fear My Own Insanity The More I Must Punish Yours.

I Believe There's A Killer In All Of Us. I Know There's One Inside Me. When You Know The Killer In You And You Know Also That You Do Not Want To Kill, You Have To Set Yourself Upon A Course Of Learning. Not To Kill That Killer Then, But To Control It.

In Many Patriarchies, Language, As Well As Cultural Tradition, Reserve The Human Condition For The Male. With The Indo-european Languages This Is A Nearly Inescapable Habit Of Mind, For Despite All The Customary Pretense That 'man' And 'humanity' Are Terms Which Apply Equally To Both Sexes, The Fact Is Hardly Obscured That In Practice, General Application Favors The Male Far More Often Than The Female As Referent, Or Even Sole Referent, For Such Designations.

Coitus Can Scarcely Be Said To Take Place In A Vacuum; Although Of Itself It Appears A Biological And Physical Activity, It Is Set So Deeply Within The Larger Context Of Human Affairs That It Serves As A Charged Microcosm Of The Variety Of Attitudes And Values To Which Culture Subscribes. Among Other Things, It May Serve As A Model Of Sexual Politics On An Individual Or Personal Plane.