Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
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In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.Catharine MacKinnon
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
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In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of 'sex' they were not coerced enough.
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
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