Marilyn Frye - I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term femi

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

- Marilyn Frye

source: Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

topic: Men, Long, Feminist, I Wish You Would, Physical Violence