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provider :r even necessarily as a lover (since her demands for orgasm
have created a new epidemic of impotence). Her psychological armor
is less paralyzing than that of the fearful male. He must constantly
prove his adequacy. In the era of doomsday weapons, his war-loving,
chauvinistic, sexist male protests of power have become the scandal of
history. Man, who cannot give life, has begun to take it by the billions
in our century. He has revenged himself by desecrating Mother Nature
and polluting Mother Earth.
The historical deftat of woman came by violence--that must be admitted
now. It is only natural, then, that there should be a burning component
of violence in the women's movement. The war between the
sexes is just that.
Black liberation has something to say to women on the score of revolution
and rebellion. The first thing to understand is that black men
are enslaved by the white man, just as the white and black women have
been. It is therefore futile to try to make black men the enemy ofblack
women. Futile and counterrevolutionary!
The aim of some women to replace men, mechanically, as the master,
simply posits another inferior order-men, once again. The "natural
superiority" of women does not give them any social superiority
in this age of technology; they must fight for power with their natural
allies: all those who are oppressed by our system of chauvinistic
exploitation. Men, except for a handful, are merely "women" to the ruling
circle: cannon fodder, taxable objects, cogs in a wheeL
It is human liberation that makes a dialectic with every suffering
member of the mass of humankind. There is simply not enough power
to go around. So men will fight women in the way that whites fight
blacks. Women's liberation must transcend the scarcity principle under
which it has been operating, must make common cause against the
ancient snake of antinatural tyranny; in the house, certainly, but finally,
in the White House and other palaces of the West.
And the paradigm for it all began in the Garden of Eden, or rather,
the Olduvai Gorge in Africa.