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

Men and BoysJust so docs Miller return us to the first question ofhumanism. What, finally, is a Man?Norman Mailer, Genius and Lust:A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry MillerWith a disgust common to all feminists who have tried to beparticipants in the so-called humanism of men, only to discoverthrough bitter experience that the culture of males does not allowhonest female participation, Virginia Woolf wrote: “I detest themasculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, andhonour. I think the best these men can do is not to talk aboutthemselves anymore. ” 1Men have claimed the human point of view;they author it; they own it. Men are humanists, humans, humanism.Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same menare religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure,accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men haveclaimed the earth, called it Her. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes,guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly thatthey defy any authentically human imagination. Men battle eachother and Her; women battle to be let into the category “human” inimagination and reality. Men battle to keep the category “human”narrow, circumscribed by their own values and activities; womenbattle to change the meaning that men have given the word, totransform its meaning by suffusing it with female experience.Boys are birthed and raised by women. At some point, boysbecome men, dim their vision to exclude women.