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

culture, though it is smothered in euphemism, called glory orheroism. Even when it is villainous, it is huge and awesome. Terrorissues forth from the male, illuminates his essential nature and hisbasic purpose. He chooses how much to terrorize, whether terrorwill be a dalliance or an obsession, whether he will use it brutally orsubtly. But first, there is the legend of terror, and this legend iscultivated by men with sublime attention. In epics, dramas,tragedies, great books, slight books, television, films, history bothdocumented and invented, men are giants who soak the earth inblood. Within the legend men have great chances and are thecarriers of values. Within the legend, women are booty, along withgold and jewels and territory and raw materials. The legend of maleviolence is the most celebrated legend of mankind and from itemerges the character of man: he is dangerous. With the rise ofsocial Darwinism in the nineteenth century and now in thepseudoscience of sociobiology, Man-the-Aggressor is at the apex ofthe evolutionary struggle, king of the earth because he is the mostaggressive, the crudest. Male-supremacist biology, which nowsuffuses the social sciences, is, in fact, an essential element in themodem legend of terror that man spews forth celebrating himself:he is biologically ordained (where before he was God’s warrior) toterrorize women and other creatures into submission and conformity.Failing that, terror will fulfill its promise; the male willwipe out whatever terror does not control. The third tenet of malesupremacistideology, in a secular society where biology hasreplaced God (and is used to buttress anachronistic theologywhenever necessary), is that men are biologically aggressive,inherently combative, eternally antagonistic, genetically cruel,hormonally prone to conflict, irredeemably hostile and warring. Forthose who remain devout, God endowed man with what, by anystandard, must be considered a universally bad disposition, fortunatelyput to good use in subduing women. The acts of terror, thesymbols of terror, and the legend of terror all spread terror. Thisterror is not a psychological event as that phrase is commonlyunderstood: it does not originate in the mind of the one experiencingit, though it fiercely resonates there. Instead, it is generated by