I Was Supposed To Be Women's Lib,

Psychiatry Causes So Much Death

Perhaps Nothing Is So Depressing An Index Of The Inhumanity Of The Male-supremacist Mentality As The Fact That The More Genial Human Traits Are Assigned To The Underclass: Affection, Response To Sympathy, Kindness, Cheerfulness.

Coitus Can Scarcely Be Said To Take Place In A Vacuum; Although Of Itself It Appears A Biological And Physical Activity, It Is Set So Deeply Within The Larger Context Of Human Affairs That It Serves As A Charged Microcosm Of The Variety Of Attitudes And Values To Which Culture Subscribes. Among Other Things, It May Serve As A Model Of Sexual Politics On An Individual Or Personal Plane.

Perhaps Patriarchy's Greatest Psychological Weapon Is Simply Its Universality And Longevity. ... Patriarchy Has A Still More Tenacious Or Powerful Hold Through Its Successful Habit Of Passing Itself Off As Nature.

For It Is Precisely Because Certain Groups Have No Representation In A Number Of Recognized Political Structures That Their Position Tends To Be So Stable, Their Oppression So Continuous.