Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality

us seek to develop radical forms of community, to live

good, simple, natural lives. Some of us engage in explicitly political actions —opposing illegitimate wars, resisting the uses of illegitimate authority —we wonder

how to kill pigs without becoming pigs, we are immersed in the process of revolution, we learn the skills of revolution, we resist all forms of current authority

and we simultaneously seek to develop alternatives to

those forms. There are diminishing numbers of peace

freaks among us (totally committed to nonviolent revo-

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lution) and quite a few roaring anarchists. We are, at

least in our Amerikan manifestation, white, children

o f privilege, children o f liberals and reformists. We

were brought up in pretty, clean homes, had lots o f

privacy, friends, companionship from family and peers.

We are unbelievably well educated —we went to fine

suburban schools (mostly public) where we experienced

physical and intellectual regimentation which we found

unbearable; we went to the best colleges and universities (mostly private) where we studied anthropology, Freud, Marx, Norman O. Brown, and Marcuse too,

with the finest minds who, it turned out, were chicken

shit when it came to applying egalitarian principles in

the classroom or outside o f it. T h e universities where

we studied all o f these disembodied ideas continued

doing defense work for the Amerikan government. We

have had our share o f disaster and despair: the acid

tragedies, the Weatherman tragedies, the needle tragedies. Many o f us have known jail, and we have all seen friends die. We are older than we ever thought we

would be.

What it comes down to is this: through the use o f

drugs, through sexual living out, through radical political action, we broke through the bourgeois mental sets which were our inheritance but retained the humanism crucial to the liberalism o f our parents. O ur goals are simple enough to understand: we want to

humanize the planet, to break down the national structures which separate us as people, the corporate structures which separate us into distinct classes, the racist structures which separate us according to skin color;

to conserve air, water, life in its many forms; to create

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communities which are more than habitable—communities in which people are free, in which people have what they need, in which groups of people do not accumulate power, or money, or goods, through the exploitation of other people. So when we look at a sex newspaper, made by people like us, we demand that

it take some positive step in the direction we want to

go: we demand that it incorporate our radical attitudes,

the knowledge that acid and other parts of our lifestyle

have given us. And, most importantly, we refuse to

permit it to reinforce the dual-role sexist patterns and

consciousness of this culture, the very patterns and consciousness which oppress us as women, which enslave us as human beings.

Suck is a typical counter-culture sex paper. Any