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

Male perceptions of women are askew, wild, inept. Male renderingsof women in art, literature, psychology, religious discourses,philosophy, and in the common wisdom of the day, whatever theday, are bizarre, distorted, fragmented at best, demented in themain. Everything is done to keep women out of the perceptual fieldaltogether, but, like insects, women creep in; find the slightestchink in the male armor and watch her, odious thing, crawl in.Even this presence, on hands and knees as it were, is so disorienting,so fiercely threatening, that attributions of malice must bemade—immediate, intense, slanderous, couched in language thatconveys the man’s absolute authority to speak. In male reality,women cannot enter male consciousness without violating it. Themale is contaminated and distressed by any contact with womannot-as-object.He loses ground. His own masculinity cannotwithstand what he regards as an assault unless he steps on theuppity thing, crushes it by hook or by crook, by insult, open handflat against the face or clenched fist crushed into it. The darkcomforts him because it dims personality; he has sex in the dark toconvince himself that all women are the same, without individualsubstance or importance, a la Casanova. Dependence on women isabhorrent to him, so even at birth he was surrounded by drunkensluts, a la Laing. Women who want to work or vote are vicious,having abandoned every shred of female decency ,. which isqualitatively different and entirely distinct from male decency, a laD. H. Lawrence and Havelock Ellis. Male decency miraculouslysurvives the commission of murder and rape; female decency isabnegated when the woman steps out of the house to work or vote.A male masquerading as a female is dangerous because men cannotdistinguish him from the real thing (thing here used literally, notidiomatically) a la Sarotte. The male will even, a la Larry Flynt,attribute some specious kind of superiority to the female to justifyhis cruel abuses of women in reality and in this context, rememberedfor a split second, mother was a saint. In the main, theabominable She is held responsible for everything bad, fearful, oralienating that ever happened to the fully-human-He. Any assertion