by Scott Allen
As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women…he can sexually molest his daughters… THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE. Marilyn French, The War Against Women, 1992, Summit Books, p. 182.
“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.” Barbara Jordan, former congresswoman, from a women’s political symposium in September 1991, quoted in Texas Monthly, “Are Men Necessary?”, February, 1992.
“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” Germaine Greer, “Security,” The Female Eunuch, 1970, Harper Perennial.
Women have their faults / men have only two: / everything they say / everything they do. Popular feminist graffiti.
“All women, simply by virtue of their gender, are potential victims of violence. Moreover, the violence is often directed at them by those whom they have been encouraged to trust.” Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women, Changing the Landscape: Ending Violence: Achieving Equality: Final Report, 1993.
"It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples." Valerie Solanas, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, 1983 edition, Matriarchy Study Group.
