![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (I, a man, certainly hope I am not as these women-or, for that matter, Ms Dworkin-think me.) But what stands out for me is that she constructs her model of these women as rational beings doing the best they can in a world as they understand it. You may well disagree with her analysis of these women and of the world in which they live, and of world as they perceive it. Similarly, anything threatening a married woman's sole source of power-her sexual monopoly on her husband-is extremely threatening, be it masturbation/pornography, homosexuality, or heterosexual sex outside of marriage. As such, any threat to those authoritarian institutions and to these rigid roles, which have produced something like a safe harbour for women, is considered threatening. She holds that they have been made to believe that all men are basically uncivilised louts whose only use for women is sexual, and will abandon and/or mistreat them unless restrained by the Government's, or better yet, a powerful church's, enforcing rigid sex-roles. Instead, she analyses what the world looks like to these women. Perhaps because of her basic feeling of solidarity with all other women-or at least the strong need to _believe_ that that's what she feels-Ms Dworkin here goes much more deeply into possible _reasons_ other women do not believe as she that are not simply "they're oppressed". ![]()
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