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I Have To Ask You To Resist, Not To Comply, To Destroy The Power Men Have Over Women, To Refuse To Accept It, To Abhor It And To Do Whatever Is Necessary Despite Its Cost To You To Change It.

In This Society, The Norm Of Masculinity Is Phallic Aggression. Male Sexuality Is, By Definition, Intensely And Rigidly Phallic. A Man's Identity Is Located In His Conception Of Himself As The Possessor Of A Phallus; A Man's Worth Is Located In His Pride In Phallic Identity. The Main Characteristic Of Phallic Identity Is That Worth Is Entirely Contingent On The Possession Of A Phallus. Since Men Have No Other Criteria For Worth, No Other Notion Of Identity, Those Who Do Not Have Phalluses Are Not Recognized As Fully Human.

The Man Takes A Body That Is Not His, Claims It, Sows His So-called Seed, Reaps A Harvest - He Colonizes A Female Body, Robs It Of Its Natural Resources, Controls It.

I Don’t Believe Rape Is Inevitable Or Natural. If I Did, I Would Have No Reason To Be Here. If I Did, My Political Practice Would Be Different Than It Is. Have You Ever Wondered Why We [women] Are Not Just In Armed Combat Against You? It’s Not Because There’s A Shortage Of Kitchen Knives In This Country. It Is Because We Believe In Your Humanity, Against All The Evidence.

There Is No Place On Earth, No Day Or Night, No Hour Or Minute, When One Is Not A Jew Or A Woman.