Lilja’s Reviews > A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind > Status Update

“We can’t know the world itself… we can only know our experience of it. It isn’t that things don’t exist in the world, but rather that for us the things we perceive are filtered through our representations of them”

“”Men prove their manhood in the eyes of other men”” Male status, pride and dignity revolve around what other men think. Women don’t count. … “Women have, in men’s minds, such a low place in the social ladder… that it’s useless to define yourself in terms of a woman” … Men ignore or suppress all women because the idea that they might be rivals in terms of human achievement is unthinkable “