saquigley@watmath.UUCP (10/24/84)
Reprinted without permission (in the best net fashion) from the Fall 84 issue
of "M. Gentle Men for Gender Justice".
"I want a 24 hour truce during which there is no rape"
by Andrea Dworkin.
(a speech to the upper midwest Men's conference in Minneapolis, Oct 15, 1983)
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"Homophobia is very important: it is very important in the way male
supremacy works. In my opinion, the prohibitions against male homosexuality
exist in order to protect male power. 'Do it ot her'. That is to say: as
long as men rape, it is very important that men be directed to rape women.
As long as sex is full of hostility and contempt for the other person, it
is very important that men not be declassed, stigmatised as females, used
similarly. The power of men as a class depends upon keeping men sexually
inviolate and women sexually used by men. Homophobia helps maintain that
class power: it also helps keep you as individuals safe from each other,
safe from rape. If you want to do something about homophobia, you are going to
have to do something about the fact that men rape, and that forced sex is
not incidental to male sexuality but is in practice paradigmatic."
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Sophie Quigley
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