Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!bbncca!motss From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.motss Subject: Andrea Dworkin on homophobia and rape Message-ID: <1064@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 13:11:38 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1064 Posted: Wed Oct 24 13:11:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 00:37:06 EDT Lines: 24 Approved: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA Reprinted without permission (in the best net fashion) from the Fall 84 issue of "M. Gentle Men for Gender Justice". "I want a 24 hour truce during which there is no rape" by Andrea Dworkin. (a speech to the upper midwest Men's conference in Minneapolis, Oct 15, 1983) ...... "Homophobia is very important: it is very important in the way male supremacy works. In my opinion, the prohibitions against male homosexuality exist in order to protect male power. 'Do it ot her'. That is to say: as long as men rape, it is very important that men be directed to rape women. As long as sex is full of hostility and contempt for the other person, it is very important that men not be declassed, stigmatised as females, used similarly. The power of men as a class depends upon keeping men sexually inviolate and women sexually used by men. Homophobia helps maintain that class power: it also helps keep you as individuals safe from each other, safe from rape. If you want to do something about homophobia, you are going to have to do something about the fact that men rape, and that forced sex is not incidental to male sexuality but is in practice paradigmatic." ...... Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley