Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

esist; they disappear when the danger gets too close. TheConstitution has nothing for them—no help, no protection,no dignity, no solace, no justice. The law has nothingfor them—no recognition of the injuries done them bypornography, no reparations for what has been taken fromthem. They are real, and even though this society will donothing for them, they are women who have resolved thatthe man who expects to succeed in whipping must alsosucceed in killing them. This changes the nature of thewomen’s movement. It must stop slavery. The runawayslave is now part of it.2One new indulgence was to go out evenings alone.This I worked out carefully in my mind, as notonly a right but a duty. Why should a woman bedeprived of her only free time, the time allottedto recreation? Why must she be dependent onsome man, and thus forced to please him if shewished to go anywhere at night?A stalwart man once sharply contested my claimto this freedom to go alone. “Any true m an, ” hesaid with fervor, “is always ready to go with awoman at night. He is her natural protector. ”“Against what? ” 1 inquired. As a m atter of fact, thething a woman is most afraid to meet on a darkstreet is her natural protector. Singular.Charlotte Perkins Gilman,The Living of CharlottePerkins Gilman: An AutobiographyShe was thirteen. She was at a Girl Scout camp in northernWisconsin. She went for a long walk in the woods aloneduring the day. She had long blond hair. She saw threehunters reading magazines, talking, joking. One looked upand said: “T here’s a live one. ” She thought they meant adeer. She ducked and started to run away. They meanther. They chased her, caught her, dragged her back to