COMM 121 Chapter : Dworkin Reading Notes
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Pornography & male supremacy : society based on the fact that men are superior to women, male supremacy is either divine or natural; god is the supreme male, the father, sexuality of women seen as seductive and sluttish, a provocation men respond to, theological terms: men are superior because god/he made it so, biological claims that male superiority resides in organ, fluid, etc. and that we should study primates, fish, insects to see how they manage, especially with their women, biological and theological people believe the same thing: women exist to be sexually used by men, to reproduce, to keep the cave clean, to obey, women is under him, literally and figuratively, where she belongs.
