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• Friday, November 21, 2008 11:42 AM

  what I want is for it to be universally acknowledged that women don't have the only problems, the only problems that matter, or,necessarily, the worst problems

  but that men and women do not have all the same problems either, that men are not, in general, any more to blame for the problems they do have than women are to blame for the problems they have, that women have real power and that society is not organized as a conspiracy to benefit men generally or the interests of men over women. As far as what to do about it I don't have any answers beyond what everyone agrees are basic human rights. I agree with feminists on almost all policy issues. People should control their own bodies, have sex with (or not) with who they like, support their kids, be free from violence (except under legally specified circumstances), be paid the same for the same work, etc. The fact is though, that due to technological changes that have rendered physical strength obsolete, due to the fact that women are much pickier about sex and more willing to live without it, and more capable and inclined towards asexual but emotionally meaningful social bonds than men are means that in a society organized according to these principles most women will be far more comfortable and far more in control than most men. Since this is the case I wish they would stop complaining so much about, and trying to use the law to prevent, every single instance where men don't do EXACTLY what they want, EXACTLY when they want it and EXACTLY the way they want it.

  —dick dworkin Read dick dworkin's other letters
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