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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Elite
Feminist
Men
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Theory
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Human
Idea
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Nothing
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Prisoner
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Rules
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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.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Effect
Gives
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Multicultural
Postmodernism
Pretty
Universal
Us
Violence
Wherever
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Able
Admired
Being
Decent
Earn
Genius
Her
Instead
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Writer
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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Down
Elite
Few
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Greatly
Keep
Mainly
Standing
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It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
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Back
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Home
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Catharine MacKinnon
Profession
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BirthDate
07 October, 1946
Country
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