Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

ecause she will be incarcerated, human trash in an institutionfor the broken and thrown away. She is punished for knowingthe meaning of what Stanley did to her because her capacity toknow and to feel is his enemy. The rape itself was a revenge onher for wanting more than an animal fuck delivered by an animalmasculinity: for feeling more, wanting more, knowingmore. For her, sex was part of a human quest for human solace,human kindness; she genuinely did not want to “ hang backwith the brutes. ” Stanley, ordinary, unrepressed, was the naturalenemy of sex with any dimension of human longing or humanmeaning, any wanting that was not just for the raw, cold, hardfuck, a sensual using without any edge of loneliness or discontent.Blanche is marked, finally, by madness, jailed; not for hersexuality but for his, because his sexuality requires the annihilationof her aspirations to tenderness. Her human integrity isbroken, destroyed, because her sister prefers believing she ismad to facing the truth: a paradigm for women. Her sister’scomplicity is the deathblow to her mind.Having an interior life of wanting, needing, gives fuckinghuman meaning in a human context. “All my life, ” Williamswrote, “ I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire athing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerableposition, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser ofwhat you most want. ” 29Without that inner fragility and fear,fucking is likely to become, as Williams wrote in a later play,“quick, and hard, and brutal. . . like the jabbing of a hypodermicneedle. . . ”30Being stigmatized by sex is being markedby its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection,where some pain is indelible.