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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.

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.

Women And Men Are Divided By Gender, Made Into The Sexes As We Know Them, By The Social Requirements Of Heterosexuality, Which Institutionalizes Male Sexual Dominance And Female Sexual Submission.

The Arena Of Logic Was Made By Men For Men; It Was Expressly Founded On The Exclusion Of What Is Not Male, As Well As What Is Not Greek, Not Christian, Nor Western, Not Aryan.

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.