Sheila Jeffreys Quotes

• Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.

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  Girl, Feelings, Normal

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• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

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  Radical Feminism, Class, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.42, Routledge

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• Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.

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  Men, Views, Ideas

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.7, Routledge

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• Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

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  Reality, Space, Males

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• La masculinidad no puede existir sin la feminidad. Por sí sola, la masculinidad no tiene sentido, porque no es más que la mitad de un conjunto de relaciones de poder. La masculinidad pertenece a la dominación masculina, como la feminidad pertenece a la subordinación femenina.

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  Males, Female, Half

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• [Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.

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  Rights, Light, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

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  Men, Practice, Feminist

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• Como feminista, considero que el pronombre femenino es un honorífico, un término que transmite respeto. El respeto se debe a las mujeres como miembros de una casta sexual que han sobrevivido a la subordinación y merecen ser tratadas con honor. Los hombres transexuales no pueden ocupar tal posición.

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  Sex, Men, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.9, Routledge

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• Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

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  Opposites, Absence, Femininity

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• La pornografía no es igualitaria ni no sexista. Se basa en la desigualdad de la mujer y es la propaganda que hace que esa desigualdad sea sexy. Para que las mujeres encuentren sexy a los hombres pasivos y cosificados en cantidades suficientes como para hacer viable una industria pornográfica basada en esas imágenes, sería necesario reconstruir la sexualidad de las mujeres para convertirla en una sexualidad de la clase dominante. En una sociedad igualitaria, la objetivación no existiría y, por lo tanto, el zumbido particular que proporciona la pornografía, la excitación de la dominación erotizada para la clase dominante, sería inimaginable.

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  Sexy, Men, Class

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• Los hombres llevan milenios decidiendo qué son las mujeres y cómo deben comportarse a través de instituciones de control social como la religión, la medicina, el psicoanálisis o la industria del sexo. Las feministas han luchado para eliminar la definición de lo que es una mujer de estas instituciones masculinas y desarrollar sus propias interpretaciones.

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  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• La supremacía masculina se centra en el acto sexual, justificado por la práctica heterosexual.

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  Practice, Males, Justified

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• The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

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  Opposites, Feminist, Desire

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• It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.

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  Sex, Emotional, Class

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• The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.

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  Hombres, Diferencias, Energía

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• Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

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  Practice, Community, Connections

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.

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  Males, Would Be, Pornography

  Sheila Jeffreys (1990). “Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution”, Women's Press (UK)

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• La dominación masculina y el estatus bajo y estigmatizado de la mujer llevan a las adolescentes a castigar su cuerpo con trastornos alimentarios y automutilación. Cada vez hay más pruebas de que las culturas occidentales que odian a la mujer son tóxicas para las niñas y muy perjudiciales para su salud mental. Por eso no es de extrañar que haya chicas que busquen mejorar su estatus.

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  Chica, Adolescente, Odio

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