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Andrea Dworkin

“The fact is that in order to stop rape, and all of the other systematic abuses against us, we must destroy these very definitions of masculinity and femininity, of men and women. We must destroy completely and for all time the personality structures “dominant-active, or male” and “submissive-passive, or female. ” We must excise them from our social fabric, destroy any and all institutions based on them, render them vestigial, useless. We must destroy the very structure of culture as we know it, its art, its churches, its laws; we must eradicate from consciousness and memory all of the images, institutions, and structural mental sets that turn men into rapists by definition and women into victims by definition. Until we do, rape will remain our primary sexual model and women will be raped by men.”

Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
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Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics by Andrea Dworkin
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