In not having an appointment at Harvard, I’m in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

An individual’s treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

It’s mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence – a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman’s body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.