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Imagine That For Hundreds Of Years Your Most Formative Traumas, Your Daily Suffering And Pain, The Abuse You Live Through, The Terror You Live With, Are Unspeakable - Not The Basis Of Literature. You Grow Up With Your Father Holding You Down And Covering Your Mouth So Another Man Can Make A Horrible Searing Pain Between Your Legs.... You Learn How To Leave Your Body And Create Someone Else Who Takes Over When You Cannot Stand It Any More. You Develop A Self Who Is Ingratiating And Obsequious And Imitative And Aggressively Passive And Silent - You Learn, In A Word, Femininity.
-Catharine MacKinnon
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Imagine That For Hundreds Of Years Your

Catharine MacKinnon
Imagine That For Hundreds Of Years Your Most Formative Traumas, Your Daily Suffering And Pain, The Abuse You Live Through, The Terror You Live With, Are Unspeakable - Not The Basis Of Literature. You Grow Up With Your Father Holding You Down And Covering Your Mouth So Another Man Can Make A Horrible Searing Pain Between Your Legs.... You Learn How To Leave Your Body And Create Someone Else Who Takes Over When You Cannot Stand It Any More. You Develop A Self Who Is Ingratiating And Obsequious And Imitative And Aggressively Passive And Silent - You Learn, In A Word, Femininity.
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