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From the moment I realized what was happening to us, I was convinced that they were stronger than we were. It’s all about mindset. In hindsight, I think that if they’d been trying to steal our jackets, I would have reacted very differently. I wasn’t foolhardy, but I could be pretty reckless. But in that instant, I felt I was a woman, utterly and only a woman, in a way I’ve never felt before or since. Saving my own skin didn’t give me the right to wound a man. I think I’d have had the same reaction if it had been just one guy assaulting me. It was the act of rape itself that turned me back into a woman, into someone essentially vulnerable.
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All traumas have their own subgenre of literature: prison, illness, mental institutions, domestic abuse, drugs, desertion, deportation. But this fundamental, quintessential trauma, the very definition of what it means to be a woman—“someone who can be taken by force and who should not resist”—this trauma was nowhere to be found in literature.
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It’s like they’re scared to admit to themselves what they actually want: to fuck each other. Men love men. They spend half their lives telling us how much they love women, but we know they’re lying. They love each other. They fuck each other by fucking women, a lot of them are thinking about their friends while their cock is in some cunt. They watch each other in the movies, giving each other the plum roles, they see themselves strutting, powerful, they can’t believe how strong, how ripped, how brave they are. They write for each other, congratulate each other, support each other.
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Women have endured not only the history of men, like men, but their own specific oppression. Of staggering brutality. Hence this modest proposal: fuck the lot of you, fuck your condescension toward us, your displays of force backed up by the collective, your ad hoc protection, your manipulative attempts to cast yourselves as victims who find women’s emancipation difficult to deal with. What is difficult to deal with, even today, is being a woman, and having to put up with your shit.
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But the global capitalism being what it is, a cold, relentless war, to prohibit the practice of prostitution in an appropriate legal setting is to specifically prohibit women as a class from making money and profiting from their own stigmatization.
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This particular image of the prostitute that people love to flaunt, stripped of her rights, deprived of her autonomy, her power to decide, serves a number of functions. Notably, it signals to men who want to get down and dirty with a whore just how low they have to stoop to do so. In this way, they too are corralled back into marriage, into the
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