Raised' Consciousness Means Lifelong Bumping Up Against

The "otherizing" Of Women Is The Oldest Oppression Known To Our Species, And It's The Model, The Template, For All Other Oppressions.

My White Skin Disgusts Me. My Passport Disgusts Me. They Are The Marks Of An Insufferable Privilege Bought At The Price Of Others' Agony. If I Could Peel Myself Inside Out I Would Be Glad. If I Could Become Part Of The Oppressed I Would Be Free.

When Table Utensils Were Invented In The 1100s, The Catholic Church Condemned Them As Obscene And Heretical, Claiming, 'god Gave Us Fingers With Which To Eat.' And We're Supposed To Get Politically Discouraged? Oh Please. We're Being Opposed By People Who Denounced The Fork.

If I Had To Characterize One Quality As The Genius Of Feminist Thought, Culture, And Action, It Would Be The Connectivity.

A Genuine Left Doesn't Consider Anyone's Suffering Irrelevant Or Titillating; Nor Does It Function As A Microcosm Of Capitalist Economy, With Men Competing For Power And Status At The Top, And Women Doing All The Work At The Bottom.... Goodbye To All That.