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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.


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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.

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.



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.

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.



Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.



It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.



Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.



Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.



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.

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.



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.

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.

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.



What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.





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A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.

A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.



If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.



Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.



I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.



I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.



It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.



Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.



... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.



We are all miracles. What we do with the miracle is our choice.

We are all miracles. What we do with the miracle is our choice.




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