Andrea Dworkin - Right-wing Women
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interfere with that in any w ay— especially the eating o f the forbidden
fruit, the eating o f the sperm— that’s why it’s such an abomination.. . . it
makes the sin o f homosexuality all the more hideous because it’s antilife,
degenerative” (Playboy , May 1978).
* For instance: “. . . but if you’re not ready to make a baby with that
marvelous sex, then you may also be putting something down the drain
forever, which is the ability that you had to make a baby; the most marvelous thing that was in you may have been shot into a diaphragm or wasted on a pill. One might be losing one’s future” (The Presidential Papers
[New York: Bantam Books, 1964], p. 142). “O f the million spermatozoa,
there may be only two or three with any real chance o f reaching the ovum
. . . [The others] go out with no sense at all of being real spermatozoa.
They may appear to be real spermatozoa under the microscope, but after
all, a man from Mars who’s looking at us through a telescope might think
that Communist bureaucrats and FBI men look exactly the same.. . .
Even the electron microscope can’t measure the striation o f passion in a
spermatozoon. O r the force o f its w ill” (The Presidential Papers , p. 143). “I
hate contraception.. . . There’s nothing I abhor more than planned parenthood. Planned parenthood is an abomination. I’d rather have those fucking Communists over here” (The Presidential Papers , p. 131). “I think
(Footnote continues overleaf)
If an idea is stupid, presumably it is stupid whether the one who
articulates it is male or female. But that is not the case. Women,
undereducated as a class, do not have to read Aeschylus to know
that a man plants the sperm, the child, the son; women are the soil;
she brings forth the human he created; he is the originator, the
father of life. Women can have their own provincial, moralistic
sources for this knowledge: clergy, movies, gym teachers. The
knowledge is common knowledge: respected in the male writers
because the male writers are respected; stupid in women because
women are stupid as a condition of birth. Women articulate received knowledge and are laughed at for doing so. But male writers with the same received ideas are acclaimed as new, brilliant, interesting, even rebellious, brave, facing the world of sin and sex forthrightly. Women have ignorant, moralistic prejudices; men have ideas. To call this a double standard is to indulge in cruel euphemism. This gender system of evaluating ideas is a sledgehammer that bangs female intelligence to a pulp, annihilating it. Mailer and
Lawrence have taken on the world always; they knew they had a
right to it; their prose takes that right for granted; it is the gravitational field in which they move. Marabel Morgan and Anita Bryant come to the world as middle-aged women and try to act in it; of
course they are juvenile and imprecise in style, ridiculous even.
Both Mailer and Lawrence have written volumes that are as ridiculous, juvenile, despite what they can take for granted as men, despite their sometimes mastery of the language, despite their
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one of the reasons that homosexuals go through such agony when they’re
around 40 or 50 is that their lives have nothing to do with procreation.
They realize with great horror that all that wonderful sex they had in the
past is gone— where is it now? They’ve used up their being” (The Presidential Papers , p. 144). “It’s better to commit rape than masturbate” (The Presidential Papers , p. 140). “what if the seed be already a being? So desperate that it / claws, bites, cuts and lies, / burns, and betrays / desperate to capture the oven. .
(“I Got Two Kids and Another in the O ven, ” Advertisements fo r Myself [Ne
w York: Perigee, 1981], p. 397).
genuine accomplishments, despite the beauty of a story or novel.
But they are not called stupid even when they are ridiculous.
When the ideas of Lawrence cannot be distinguished from the
ideas of Morgan, either both are smart or both are stupid; and
sim ilarly with M ailer and Bryant. Only the women, however, deserve and get our contempt. Are Anita Bryant’s ideas pernicious?
Then so are Norman M ailer’s. Are Marabel Morgan’s ideas side-
slappingly funny? Then so are D. H. Lawrence’s.
A woman must keep her intelligence small and timid to survive.
Or she must hide it altogether or hide it through style. Or she
must go mad like clockwork to pay for it. She w ill try to find the
nice w ay to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike.
Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligence abhors sentim entality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the
cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and
women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman
could not bribe her w ay with smiles through a day. W ild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be
Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lo-
botomized. A ny vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers: but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis and Clark of the female mind. Even restrained intelligence is
restrained not because it is timid, as women must be, but because
it is cautiously weighing impressions and facts that come to it from
an outside that the timid dare not face. A woman must please, and
restrained intelligence does not seek to please; it seeks to know
through discernment. Intelligence is also ambitious: it always
wants more: not more being fucked, not more pregnancy; but more
of a bigger world. A woman cannot be ambitious in her own right
without also being damned.
We take girls and send them to schools. It is good of us, because
girls are not supposed to know anything much, and in many other
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