Ayn Rand was not only a schlock novelist, she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor but the lackluster middle-classes as well.

Her books provided wide-ranging parables of "parasites," "looters" and "moochers" using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes' labor. In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O'Connor (her husband was Frank O'Connor).

She held the tap-dancingly daffy notion that the mountains evidence for smoking being linked to cancer was total bullshit and went on to write myriad poetic descriptions of her two-pack-a--day habit til she was 69 when the doctor showed her an x-ray of her lungs that pretty much was a connect the dots picture of the Specter of Death.

Unlike her fellow founder of American Libertarianism, Isabel Paterson, who chose to die sick and poor rather than even open her Social Security card, Rand spent the rest of her life collecting over $11,000 in government assistance, because principles are all well and good until you get cancer.

Also, Rand is perhaps the only virulently anti-Christian writer that Republicans nonetheless routinely feel comfortable heaping praise upon. In a charming 1964 interview with Playboy, Rand described the crucifixion of Jesus in terms of “mythology,” and submitted that she would feel “indignant” over such a “sacrifice of virtue to vice.” That Christians are called to care for the most vulnerable of God’s people was, to Rand, manifest proof that the religion has nothing constructive to add to human life: After all, in her philosophy, “superiors” have no moral obligations to those weaker or more vulnerable than they. According to Rand, the Christian moral imperative to serve the needy is a “monstrous idea.”

Further on, Her watchwords during her books and during her 'discussions' are “reason,” “logic,” and “objectivity,” but when I scrutinize the ideas for which she has been most influential — her ideas on political economy — I find that they are logically fallacious to the point of unreason.

I see that Rand does not tolerate the philosopher’s patient tarrying with differing points of view but moves in quickly for the rhetorical kill. She seems to be moved by a passion — the libido dominandi, the desire for control — far more than by the gentle art of thinking. It is always astounding to me that some of the most educated members of our intellectual elites should swallow her arguments so gleefully, and I have to believe that it is more a function of their elitism than their intellectual capacities.

Focus your attention on the central flaw in Rand’s reasoning because it parallels, and partially encourages, the confused thinking that is generating some of the impasses in our current governmental debates.

The fallacy that is at the heart of Rand’s political-economic philosophy is the fallacy of mistaking a necessary condition for a sufficient condition. This is elementary logic. A necessary condition is something that is needed in order to make something else happen. A plant must have water, for example, in order to thrive. But a necessary condition is not the same as a sufficient condition — that is, something that provides everything needed for something else to happen. Water is not sufficient to make a plant thrive. Other ingredients are needed, like soil and sunlight.

Ayn Rand’s philosophy is above all a defense of the entrepreneur. The economic value of goods and services that we find on the market is created by entrepreneurs — people who had the idea, pursued the vision, marshaled the resources, managed production, and shepherded products to market.

One can agree with this point by saying that the entrepreneur is a necessary condition for the creation of economic value. But Rand treats the entrepreneur as a sufficient condition. The entrepreneur creates the value of goods and everyone else gets in his way (in Rand the pronoun is always “he,” even when he is a woman). Governments are leeches on the value he creates; organized labor siphons off more of it. Who could blame the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, and his like if they should take their marbles and head off to form their own society, leaving the parasites behind?

But in truth the entrepreneur, though very much a necessary condition for the production of economic value, is not a sufficient condition. An entrepreneur will get nowhere without a capitalist or a government agency in charge of a budget to finance his or her ideas; the production will require a labor force; it will need to make use of public infrastructure and a framework of the rule of law; and the fruits of the production will be of no value if no one wants them. Thus the creators, entrepreneurs, investors, taxpayers, legislators, jurists, workers, and consumers are all necessary conditions for the production of the value that we find in the marketplace; but none of them, including the entrepreneur, is a sufficient condition: none can make it happen alone.

And Objectivism? Please. That can be summarized as:

1) Reality is an objective absolute. Facts trump man's feelings, wishes, hopes, and fears.
2) Reason is the only way to perceive reality and the sole knowledge source. It is man's only guide to action and means to survival.
3) Every man exists for his own sake. Pursuit of his own rational self-interest and his own happiness is his life's moral purpose.
4) The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism.

The problems, though, are that Laissez-Faire capitalism doesn't work. Laissez-Faire capitalism is a utopian fantasy. And like all utopias, it cannot actually exist. Therefore, as a philosophy, it needs to be judged on how it gets implemented in the real world, with all the real world's inherent inconsistencies. After that, we know Reason has real-world limitations. While I'm all for valuing reason over superstition, the notion that one can use reason without emotion is science fiction. Maybe that works on the planet Vulcan, but human beings swim in a vast ocean of emotion. Emotion governs the "why" behind every exercise of reason, determining our choices of interest and intention. In the real world, people use reason as a way to buttress what their emotions desire. On a personal level, Ayn Rand was a emotional nut case. Regardless of what you think of her philosophy and writing, Rand's personal life was a complete shambles. She became involved in an adulterous affair with a disciple (a "reasonable" decision on her part, of course), and then went all "old bat of out hell" when he made the "reasonable" decision to start boinking some younger woman. The resulting emotional pyrotechnics were a perfect example of the impotence of Objectivism as a life creed. This segues nicely into the fact that her philosophy is devoid of gratitude. While individualism has some value, Objectivism largely discounts the fact the every successful person stands on the shoulders of those who have come before. In addition, success always involves an element of luck, often consisting of having had the luck to be born into a rich family with plenty of connections. Success devoid of gratitude and the noblesse oblige to help others brings out the worst in people. And let's not forget that reality is NOT an objective absolute. There's no way to tell whether reality is objective or not because it can only be perceived subjectively. While it could be argued that the consensus of multiple subjective realities equals objective reality, the exact same logic would also assign objective reality to Jung's archetypes, which appear inside every human being's dreams. In any case, measuring something changes the thing measured, so simply perceiving "reality" changes the nature of reality. Therefore, so it can't be absolute. Oh, and the pander about facts and wishes? Rhetoric. Facts do NOT trump feelings, wishes, hopes, and fears. As any sales professional knows, when dealing with human beings, facts ALWAYS run a distant fifth. That's particularly true when dealing with people who are operating under the fantasy that their decisions are based upon "fact." Emotion trumps reason every time, and nobody is easier to influence emotionally than those who are so unaware of that their emotions that they think they're making "reasonable" decisions. Finally, on that note, Every man does NOT exist for his own sake. While Rand believed that pursuit of one's own rational self-interest and one's own happiness is his life's moral purpose, the scientific fact is that man evolved as a communal creature, with bonds of family and community being tightly tied to health, happiness, longevity, and pretty much everything that makes life pleasurable. Objectivism thus runs counter to demonstrable scientific fact.

Hell, even her book characters were failures. If Roark (the hero of Rand's book The Fountainhead) wanted his "vision" to be his alone, he had no business getting other people to bankroll it. Instead, he should have done something like the Watts Towers, where he'd be responsible for every part of the project, including its construction. Large scale architecture is a collaborative venture that involves satisfying the desires and needs of the CLIENT. Good architects are experst at managing client expectations and working through creative differences.

Altogether, she's a dithering pissant who bullied people who disagreed with her skewed philosophical thinking, she hid the fact that she was just as much a government 'leech' as those she professed to hate, and her books are poorly written dreck that, from what I've seen, when read gives people a self-imposed right to act like a selfish idiot. They combine a patina of "reason" over a self-righteous justification of whatever their "id" happens to want at the time and then insist that they're just pursuing their own self-interest

Her very concept completely disregards the "humanity" aspect of humanity and, to be frank, it doesn't wash.

"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex."

~Valerie Solanas, the SCUM Manifesto

___________________________________________________

"The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist."

~National NOW Times, Jan.1988

____________________________________________________

"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."

~Catherine Comins, Vassar College,
Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p. 52

____________________________________________________

"The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it"

~Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in Women and the New Rage, p.67

____________________________________________________

“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

____________________________________________________

“To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.”

~Valerie Solanas

____________________________________________________

“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

____________________________________________________

“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

____________________________________________________

“The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.”

~Sharon Stone

____________________________________________________

“In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.”

~Catherine MacKinnon

____________________________________________________

“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.”

~Sally Miller Gearhart

____________________________________________________

“All men are rapists and that’s all they are”

~Marilyn French

____________________________________________________

“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

____________________________________________________

"Sex is the cross on which women are crucified … Sex can only be adequately defined as universal rape."

~Hodee Edwards

____________________________________________________

"Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat."

~Hillary Clinton

____________________________________________________

“MAN: … an obsolete life form… an ordinary creature who needs to be watched … a contradictory baby-man …”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
”TESTOSTERONE POISONING: … ‘Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’”

~A Feminist Dictionary

____________________________________________________

"Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself… The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home."

~Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, pp. 259-261.

____________________________________________________

"Women take their roles of caretakers very seriously and when they hear of someone who’s taken advantage of a child, they react more strongly than men do."

~Kathleen C. Faller

____________________________________________________

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it."

~Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

____________________________________________________

"I wonder if he [Martin Luther King] really accomplished things, or if he just stirred people up and caused a lot of riots."

~Melbourne City Councilwoman Pat Poole on her opposition to renaming a street for Martin Luther King

____________________________________________________

"Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman,"

~Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p.58

____________________________________________________

"Compare victims’ reports of rape with women’s reports of sex. They look a lot alike….[T]he 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."

~Catherine MacKinnon, quoted in Christina Hoff Sommers, “Hard-Line Feminists Guilty of Ms.-Representation,” Wall Street Journal, November 7, 1991.

____________________________________________________

"The fact is that the process of killing - both rape and battery are steps in that process- is the prime sexual act for men in reality and/or in imagination.".

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 22..

____________________________________________________

"Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire, and the first crude stone axe."

~Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, p. 5..

____________________________________________________

"The newest variations on this distressingly ancient theme center on hormones and DNA: men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 114..

____________________________________________________

When asked: “You [Greer] were once quoted as saying your idea of the ideal man is a woman with a dick. Are you still that way inclined?"
Dr Greer (denying that she said it): “I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of a damanged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they’re doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they’re manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don’t take place anywhere near an ovum. I don’t know that the ecosphere can tolerate it.”

~Germaine Greer, at a Hilton Hotel literary lunch, promoting her book #34; The Change— Women, Aging and the Menopause#34; . From a newsreport dated 14/11/91

____________________________________________________

"One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 21..

____________________________________________________

"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."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 265..

____________________________________________________

"AIDS education will not get very far until young men are taught how not to rape young women and how to eroticize trust and consent; and until young women are supported in the way they need to be redefining their desires."

~Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 168..

____________________________________________________

"In everything men make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, still their sobs as they mourn the empitness and alienation of their lives."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 214..

____________________________________________________

"One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that’s what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 145..

____________________________________________________

"Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks."

~Andrea Dworkin in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995..

____________________________________________________

"All men benefit from rape, because all men benefit from the fact that women are not free in this society; that women cower; that women are afraid; that women cannot assert the rights that we have, limited as those rights are, because of the ubiquitous presence of rape."

~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 142..

____________________________________________________

"We have long known that rape has been a way of terrorizing us and keeping us in subjection. Now we also know that we have participated, although unwittingly, in the rape of our minds."

~Historian Gerda Lerner in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, p. 55..

____________________________________________________

"How will the family unit be destroyed? …[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare."

~Roxanne Dunbar in Female Liberation

____________________________________________________

"We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

~Robin Morgan, from Sisterhood Is Powerful (ed), 1970, p. 537

____________________________________________________

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. Only when manhood is dead—and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it"

~Andrea Dworkin

____________________________________________________

"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together…. Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process…. No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children… Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people’s needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all."

~Linda Gordon, “Functions of the Family,” WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969

____________________________________________________

"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men…"

~Elizabeth Stanton, One Woman, One Vote, Wheeler, p. 58

____________________________________________________

"Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don’t like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I’ll run you down."

~Signed: Liberated Women, Boronia. (Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia - 9 February 1996)

____________________________________________________

"As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women…he can sexually molest his daughters… THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE."

~Marilyn French

____________________________________________________

"My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter."

~Marilyn French; The Woman’s Room.

____________________________________________________

"All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women… All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men’s prey."

~Marilyn French

____________________________________________________

"We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women."

~Katha Pollitt.

____________________________________________________


"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."

~Catherine MacKinnon

____________________________________________________

"The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used."

~Andrea Dworkin

____________________________________________________

"The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations…obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign."

~Marilyn French

____________________________________________________

"Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left…is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity."

~Andrea Dworkin

____________________________________________________

"You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs."

~Catherine MacKinnon (Prominent legal feminist scholar; University of Michigan, & Yale.)

____________________________________________________

"Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence."

~Judith Levine

____________________________________________________

"Men’s sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can ‘reach WITHIN women to fuck/construct us from the inside out.’ Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women’s own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, ‘even if she does not feel forced.’

~Judith Levine, (explicating comment profiling prevailing misandry.)

____________________________________________________

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness…can be trained to do most things."

~Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men.)

____________________________________________________

"Women have their faults / men have only two: / everything they say / everything they do."

~Popular Feminist Graffiti

____________________________________________________

"I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, ‘hate in love,’ for the men women share their lives with—husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, coworkers."

~Judith Levine, My Enemy, My love

____________________________________________________

"There are no boundaries between affectionate sex and slavery in (the male) world. Distinctions between pleasure and danger are academic; the dirty-laundrylist of ‘sex acts’…includes rape, foot binding, fellatio, intercourse, auto eroticism, incest, anal intercourse, use and production of pornography, cunnilingus, sexual harassment, and murder."

~J. Levine; summarizing comment on the WAS document, (A southern Women’s Writing Collective: Women Against Sex.)

____________________________________________________

"All men are good for is fucking, and running over with a truck".

~Statement made by A University of Maine Feminist Administrator, quoted by Richard Dinsmore, who brought a successful civil suit against the University in the amount of $600,000. Richard had protested the quote; was dismissed thereafter on the grounds of harassment; and responded by bringing suit against the University. 1995 settlement.

____________________________________________________

"Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it "Her". Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

~Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

____________________________________________________

"On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom."

~Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women.

____________________________________________________

"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father’s concubine… What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What’s more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.".

~Journalist Sylvia Fraser

____________________________________________________

"We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable."

~Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women.

____________________________________________________

"Catharine MacKinnon maintains that ‘the private is a sphere of battery, marital rape and women’s exploited labor.’ In this way, privacy and family are reduced to nothing more than aspects of the master plan, which is male domination. Democratic freedoms and the need to keep the state’s nose out of our personal affairs are rendered meaningless. The real reason our society cherishes privacy is because men have invented it as an excuse to conceal their criminality. If people still insist that the traditional family is about love and mutual aid—ideals which, admittedly, are sometimes betrayed—they’re ‘hiding from the truth.’ The family isn’t a place where battery and marital rape sometimes happen but where little else apparently does. Sick men don’t simply molest their daughters, they operate in league with their wives to ‘breed’ them for that purpose."

~Donna Laframboise; The Princess at the Window; (in a critical explication of the Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinhem et al tenets of misandric belief.)

____________________________________________________

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."

~Robin Morgan

____________________________________________________

"And let’s put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism—the lie that there can be such a thing as ‘men’s liberation groups.’ Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group, specifically because of a ‘threatening’ characteristic shared by the latter group—skin, color, sex or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed FUCKED UP by being masters, but those masters are not OPPRESSED. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism—the oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power but to fight. In the long run, Women’s Liberation will of course free men—but in the short run it’s going to cost men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is NOT the fault of women—kill your fathers, not your mothers".

~Robin Morgan.

____________________________________________________

"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies."

~Andrea Dworkin

____________________________________________________

"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference."

~Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime.

____________________________________________________

"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist".

~Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey (p. 86).

____________________________________________________

"(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 p.6

____________________________________________________

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression…"

~Sheila Jeffrys.

____________________________________________________

  MALE:…represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants…the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female.

  MAN:…an obsolete life form… an ordinary creature who needs to be watched…a contradictory baby-man…

~From ‘A feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae and Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985:

____________________________________________________

"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal—a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students—I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment…of persuading students that women are oppressed

~Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women.

___________________________________________________

"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex."

~Valerie Solana, SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men.)

____________________________________________________

"Men, as a group, tend to be abusive, either verbally, sexually or emotionally. There are always the exceptions, but they are few and far between (I am married to one of them). There are different levels of violence and abuse and individual men buy into this system by varying degrees. But the male power structure always remains intact."
Message on FEMISA, responding to a request for arguments that men are unnecessary for a child to grow into mature adulthood.

And:

Another posting on FEMISA: “Considering the nature and pervasiveness of men’s violence, I would say that without question, children are better off being raised without the presence of men. Assaults on women and children are mostly perpetrated by men whom they are supposed to love and trust: fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, step-fathers.”

~Both quotes taken from Daphne Patai’s excellent critical work,
HETEROPHOBIA

____________________________________________________

"No, we don’t believe that any woman should have this

choice. No woman should be authorised to stay at home to bring up her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.”

~Simone de Beauvoir

The Abrahamic god of Christian faith is, according to the bible, a mysoginistic, hateful, sociopathic, genocidal, hypocritical war-monger who, if he existed physically as a human being, would be tried for war crimes and hung before a cheering crowd of spectators.

http://silverwolfcc.tumblr.com/post/102688071948/feminists-dont-have-to-be-your-audience-feminists

It's not easy, but it is my natural state of being. I've always thought it must suck to be a decaying bag of flesh that is constantly struggling against entropic forces that will eventually cause all your systems to break down into their component matter and then be redistributed, reprocessed, and repeated in an endless struggle against the chaos you deny is waiting to consume you.

My culture is more important than your perceptions of my culture.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ordering-vegetarian-meal-there-s-more-animal-blood-your-hands

"It’s alright to make fun of white cishet men because-"

No. Want to be a bully? Go ahead. Want to mock a little under half the population of the entire planet for traits they can’t help since they were fucking born with said traits? Sure. But don’t you fucking dare act like you care about equal rights when you’re actually nothing but a self-centered bitch.

Vineyards promote grape culture
Hardware stores promote rake culture
zoos promote ape culture
Brunches promote crêpe culture
Office supplies promote tape culture.
Home decoration supports drape culture.
claws supports scrape culture
Geometry supports shape culture.

The gaming community I know, the one I was introduced to as a kid and assimilated into, is incredibly welcoming. They’ll coach you. They’ll joke around with you. They’ll share favorite titles and epic replays. Gaming is inherently social.

The reason that we have such a negative outlook on gaming is because of unfair stereotyping and the perpetuation of loudness via xbox live and other anonymizers. Gamers past the age of 13 or 14 know how to conduct themselves, and the most popular figures in gaming are the ones that encourage universal participation.

If you bothered to go beyond scratching the surface, you’d find an incredibly warm and open-minded tcg community, a diverse fighting game community, and a mathematically talented RPG community. These are all circles that are known for wanting women and minorities to be involved in their hobby, and that have gone to great lengths to accommodate nearly everyone.

Gamers will only shun you if you don’t understand gaming.