User:Robin Lionheart/Antifeminist misquotes

Misquotes spread by WomenAgainstMen.com
I sought to track down a list of supposedly "man-hating" quotes by "prominent feminists" on WomenAgainstMen.com, which they apparently got from a blog by Kelly Mac.


 * "I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." -- Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
 * In context: I feel that "man-hating" is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. And although there are exceptions (as in everything), i.e., men who are trying to be traitors to their own male class, most men cheerfully affirm their deadly class privileges and power. And I hate that class.
 * "Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?", spring 1973, keynote address to West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference, printed in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 178.


 * "To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo." – Valerie Solanas
 * SCUM Manifesto (1967), p. 1


 * "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." - Andrea Dworkin
 * Actual quote: Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
 * Andrea (narrating), in Mercy: A Novel (1990)


 * "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" - Susan Brownmiller
 * Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe. From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
 * Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1975)
 * Listed in topic category Rape


 * "The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men." -- Sharon Stone
 * Sharon Stone a "prominent feminist"? Her fame is as an actor.
 * Cannot source this. May be a line by one of her film roles.


 * "In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent." -- Catherine MacKinnon
 * Actually from Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales From the Strange World of Women's Studies, being the author's mischaracterization of MacKinnon's views.
 * Instead MacKinnon argues that heterosexuality "institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission" (1982) and that "Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial" (1991).
 * listed on Catharine MacKinnon under Misattributed.


 * "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." -- Sally Miller Gearhart
 * "The Future–if there is one–is Female" (1981), in


 * "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience." - Catherine Comins
 * Not a quote by Comins, but a position ascribed to her by Nancy Gibbs.
 * Actual quote, and rest of paragraph: Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape." She says angry victims of various forms of sexual intimidation cry rape to regain their sense of power. "To use the word carefully would be to be careful for the sake of the violator, and the survivors don't care a hoot about him." Comins argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' Those are good questions."
 * Nancy Gibbs, "When Is It Rape?", Time Magazine (June 3, 1991)


 * "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French
 * Actual quote: Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all that they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
 * Val, in The Women's Room (1977) by Marilyn French. Spoken by fictional character whose daughter has been gang-raped.
 * listed in Rape and Misandry topic categories


 * "Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release." -- Germaine Greer.
 * "Security", The Female Eunuch (1970)


 * “If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?” – Gloria Steinem
 * "If Men Could Menstruate" (1978), collected in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (2012)

misattributed to Gloria Steinem

 * Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children... parasites.
 * Fake quote. Actual quote: "If role reform sounds sexually unsettling, think how it will change the sexual hypocrisy we have now. [...] No more men who are encouraged to spend a lifetime living with inferiors; with housekeepers, or dependent creatures who are still children."
 * "What It Would Be Like If Women Win", Time (31 August 1970)
 * Listed in misattributed section

misattributed to Robin Morgan

 * We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
 * Actually from 1969 leaflet by The Feminists, "Women: Do You Know the Facts About Marriage?". Its text was reprinted in the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful edited by Robin Morgan.
 * Listed in misattributed section