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Andrea Dworkin

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Andrea Dworkin

Equality

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Andrea Dworkin is arguing that striving for equality with men means accepting the roles and behaviors that men have traditionally held, including those involving power and violence. She suggests that this kind of equality would place women in positions of dominance and harm, rather than simply achieving fairness or justice.

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