RadFem lesbian Andrea Dworkin
The late Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) is a Jewish radical feminist (radfem), lesbian, anti-pornography activist and author.
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Though a public lesbian, Dworkin was married twice — to men. Her second husband, John Stoltenberg, “considers himself gay” and also a radfem. Please note that Stoltenberg is the former managing editor of the AARP’s magazine.
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In her 1987 book, Intercourse, Dworkin argues that in our patriarchal (male-dominated) society, all heterosexual sex is really rape and not that different from pornography in that it’s coercive and degrading to women. Sexual penetration of vagina by penis may by its very nature doom women to inferiority and submission, and “may be immune to reform.”
Nearly 9 years after Dworkin had died, nothing has changed in radical feminists’ view of sexual intercourse or PIV (Penis In Vagina).
On a radfem blog called radical wind (note the lack of capital letters), blogger witchwind writes in her post of Dec. 15, 2013 that “a basic fact” is that “Intercourse/PIV is always rape, plain and simple.” Here are some excerpts (my editorial comments are colored teal):
Intercourse is the very means through which men oppress us, from which we are not allowed to escape [...]
First, well intercourse is NEVER sex for women. [...] Sex for men is the unilateral penetration of their penis into a woman (or anything else replacing and symbolising the female orifice) whether she thinks she wants it or not – which is the definition of rape: that he will to do it anyway and that he uses her and treats her as a receptacle, in all circumstances [...] men use women as useful objects and instruments for penetration, and women are dehumanised by this act. It is an act of violence.
[...] intercourse is inherently harmful to women and intentionally so, because it causes pregnancy in women. [Now we know why feminists are pro-aborts and regard the unborn baby in the womb as a tumor. Of course, this means that witchwind and other radfems themselves were once "tumors" in their mothers' wombs.] The purpose of men enforcing intercourse regularly (as in, more than once a month) onto women is because it’s the surest way to cause pregnancy and force childbearing against our will, and thereby gain control over our reproductive powers. [What "reproductive powers"? Aren't babies mere cancerous tumors?] There is no way to eliminate the pregnancy risk entirely off PIV and the mitigating and harm-reduction practices such as contraception and abortion are inherently harmful, too. Reproductive harms of PIV range from pregnancy to abortion, having to take invasive, or toxic contraception, giving birth, forced child bearing and rearing and all the complications that go with them which may lead up to severe physical and emotional damage, disability, destitution, illness, or death [...] If we compare this to even the crappiest online definition of violence: “behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something”. Bingo. It fits: Pregnancy = may hurt, damage or kill. Intercourse = a man using his physical force to penetrate a woman. Intention / purpose of the act of intercourse = to cause pregnancy. PIV is therefore intentional harm / violence. Intentional sexual harm of a man against a woman through penile penetration = RAPE.
[...] PIV is a man mounting on a woman to thrust a large member of himself into her most intimate parts, often forcing her to be entirely naked, banging himself against her with the whole weight of his body and hips, shaking her like he would stuff a corpse, then using her insides as a receptacle for his penile dejection. How is this a normal civilised, respectful way to treat anyone? Sorry for the explicit picture, but this is what it is and it’s absolutely revolting and violating.
The term “fuck you” is not an insult for nothing, men know why – it’s the worst thing you can do to a human being. It [...] causes all sorts of tears, bruises, swelling, discomfort, STDs, vaginal infections, urinary infections, genital warts, HIV and death. [...]
The fact intercourse causes so many infections and tears and warts attests to the unnaturalness of intercourse, that it’s not meant to be. The vagina’s primary function isn’t to be penetrated by a penis but to eject a baby for birth. [...] Penetration of the penis into the vagina is completely unnecessary for conception. [Uh? Before modern science, artificial insemination and test-tube babies, how did the human species reproduce ourselves?]
[...] Through an all-pervasive and powerful male propaganda, they stuff our minds from infancy with the idea that PIV is normal, desirable and erotic [...] The fact we may not immediately feel raped doesn’t mean it’s not rape, objectively speaking. [...] our subjective feelings or thoughts may be colonised by men’s perspectives [...]
Here are the 10 bloggers who clicked the “like” button on witchwind’s “PIV is always rape, ok?”:
- Hecuba
- Branjor
- Mary Sunshine
- Terre Spencer
- Cammy
- talkingtomyself16
- Ann Tagonist [get it?]
- wwomenwwarriors
- skulldrix
- blackmetalvalkyrie
On the blog’s effective “About” page, which witchwind pretentiously calls “On Writing and Creativity,” she says that her blog’s purpose is to write about her “insights” on “maledom” which are “relevant to radical feminism, to our liberation”.
On the blog’s “Comments” page, witchwind declares that only “women interested in forwarding radical feminist discussion and thought are invited to comment. Men, don’t even try commenting on my blog, because I’m not going to publish it.”
Here are some more brilliant [sarc] man-hating insights from witchwind:
1. Science is male, dead, boring, and full of lies:
Men have made science to be full of endnotes, dead-talk, lies and boredom. I will never thank Mary Daly enough for coining the word “academentia”. They are not interested in the truth, but interested in concocting fake evidence to support their lies and propaganda against women, to legitimise their totalitarian regime and political agenda of destroying the universe. In particular, Male science, as everything male, is modelled on the male ideal relationship to the world: men as god, who position themselves as external observers of life from the top, separate from life itself: life is viewed as underneath, as an object, a dead object, ripped from its environment and from the life that surrounds and sustains it. To be studied it is imprisoned, held captive, fragmented, cut up, penetrated, prodded, tortured in the most unimaginable ways. From this murder and torture they deduce “objective laws”.
Their science is as objective as pornography, that is, it couldn’t be a worse perversion of truth. [...] So-called “modern western science” is simply Male Religion re-branded as science, with the only difference being that men replaced the omniscient (omni-science) god with themselves – religious paradigm and the male god’s overpowering/towering relationship to the world became the scientific paradigm, ontology and methodology.
2. witchwind blames the problems she experienced with writing when she was a university student to “male writing”:
[...] One thing I’ve noticed is that one reason why writing felt so much like a chore is that the process was separated from the ends. Men focus everything on an end product, which is a dead object, a finished object, a square frame. It is very much based on ejaculation, or perhaps male notion of extinction. [...] It’s not living work. University essay-writing was all about deadlines, dead ends. This is deeply alienating. [...] What made writing so joy-killing and draining was that I wasn’t focused on the process itself and what it did to me, but on the end-product idea I wanted to express. [...] It was basically a chore.
3. Everything male is dead, oppressive, and stultifying:
In contrast, “Joy and serenity are fundamental to feminism.”
On one thing, I do agree with witchwind. In her post “intercourse and manufactured female pleasure: politics of love part III,” on Jan. 2, 2014, she rails against the women’s liberation movement as being “the great scam of the 20th century” perpetrated by men in the interests of men, although I would phrase it differently. LOL
As witchwind puts it, instead of liberty, “women’s liberation” is really about:
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“being free to be fucked by any man
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having orgasms in being fucked by men
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achieving equality to men with the pill, so we can now be fucked by men without consequences, that is dissociate PIV from reproduction.”
H/t Clash Daily
~Eowym
