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We Think That We Live In A Heterosexual Society Because Most Men Are Fixated On Women As Sexual Objects; But, In Fact, We Live Ina Homosexual Society Because All Credible Transactions Of Power, Authority, And Authenticity Take Place Among Men; All Transactions Based On Equity And Individuality Take Place Among Men. Men Are Real; Therefore, All Real Relationship Is Between Men; All Real Communication Is Between Men; All Real Reciprocity Is Between Men; All Real Mutuality Is Between Men.

The Argument Between Wives And Whores Is An Old One; Each One Thinking That Whatever She Is, At Least She Is Not The Other.

Feminist Art Is Not Some Tiny Creek Running Off The Great River Of Real Art. It Is Not Some Crack In An Otherwise Flawless Stone. It Is, Quite Spectacularly I Think, Art Which Is Not Based On The Subjugation Of One Half Of The Species. It Is Art Which Will Take The Great Human Themes -love, Death, Heroism, Suffering, History Itself -and Render Them Fully Human. It May Also, Though Perhaps Our Imaginations Are So Mutilated Now That We Are Incapable Even Of The Ambition, Introduce A New Theme, One As Great And As Rich As Those Others -should We Call It Joy?

It Is A Tragedy Beyond The Power Of Language To Convey When What Has Been Imposed On Women By Force Becomes A Standard Of Freedom For Women: And All The Women Say It Is So.

In This Society, The Norm Of Masculinity Is Phallic Aggression. Male Sexuality Is, By Definition, Intensely And Rigidly Phallic. A Man's Identity Is Located In His Conception Of Himself As The Possessor Of A Phallus; A Man's Worth Is Located In His Pride In Phallic Identity. The Main Characteristic Of Phallic Identity Is That Worth Is Entirely Contingent On The Possession Of A Phallus. Since Men Have No Other Criteria For Worth, No Other Notion Of Identity, Those Who Do Not Have Phalluses Are Not Recognized As Fully Human.