However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.