History of Feminism

rather like prize cows, ready to be bred at any time but with no thoughts, wants, likes, dislikes, or civil rights of our own.

When we step out of their tidy little pasture they go ballistic. How dare we? Stand up there like we have anything to teach all powerful men? Well, he'll show us!

It used to be obscene and threatening phone calls. Now it's on the net and it's pervasive. While we all noticed deep seated misogyny back in the 60s on the far left, the anonymity of the net has not only caused a resurgence of it, it has intensified it.

ETA: I did find a rape porn fantasy about me written by a fellow leftist back in the antiwar days. I sat him down and read it to him and deconstructed it for him along with letting him know that if I had one hand or one foot free, exactly what I'd be doing with them. Then we had a long talk about his pathological view of women as cattle, to be acted upon by men but never acting in our own right.

I'm afraid I just about deconstructed him. However, I got through to him that he could fantasize whatever he wanted to, but if he ever again put it onto paper or tried to practice it in real life, he'd be in for another little talk at the very least.