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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

“Feminism must grasp that male power produces the world before it distorts it. Women's complicity in their condition does not contradict its fundamental unacceptability if women have little choice but to become persons who then freely choose women's roles.

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.

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.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Women derive their class position from their personal alliances with men. This may help explain why women do not unite against male dominance, but it does not explain that dominance, which cuts across class lines even as it takes some forms peculiar to classes.

The coercion of women into and within prostitution has been invisible because prostitution is considered sex and sex is considered what women are for.

Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Sex between people and things, human beings and pieces of paper, real men and unreal women, will be a turn-off. Artifacts of these abuses will reside in a glass case next to the dinosaur skeletons in the Smithsonian.

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

If prostitution is a free choice, why are the women with the fewest choices the ones most often found doing it?

Women derive their class position from their personal alliances with men. This may help explain why women do not unite against male dominance, but it does not explain that dominance, which cuts across class lines even as it takes some forms peculiar to classes.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

If prostitution is a free choice, why are the women with the fewest choices the ones most often found doing it?

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