animals.

HETEROSEXUALLY IMPAIRED: Large group, often ignorant of their condition.

M.A.L.E.: Acronym for Men Against Linguistic Equality, the English-speaking branch ofan interna- tional secret brotherhood known to have existed since the third millennium B.C. [Editors’ note: Did Eng- lish exist in the third millennium B.C.?] Founded in Sumeria to combat the influence of the world’s first poet, Enheduanna, who through her writing estab- lished the cultic primacy of the female deity Inanna, the organization is still dedicated to the belief, ac- cording to one member, ‘‘that women should be seen and not heard.’’ The 1966 plenary session of MALE, held atthe Bohemian Grove, near Monte Rio, Califor- nia, was the first meeting to receive publicity, a consequence, it is believed, of internal dissent over how to diffuse the feminist countermovement which works openly in political, educational, and corporate spheres to expose MALE’s previously concealed influence on the language. Stung by the growing acceptance of the social title Ms. and of changes in political and occupational nomenclature, as well as by ‘nonsexist guidelines’ issued by several American publishing houses, a number of men believed to hold important leadership positions in MALE have adopted the tactic of open counter attack throughridicule. ...

MATRIARCHY: Is aterm used variously in feminist writings to mean (a) an actual society believed to be

governed by women long before the current patriar- chalepoch...

NATIONALIST FEMINIST ARMED FORCES: NFAF proposes to represent the armed forces of the Nationalist Feminist Government. The female sex needs self-defense, self-government, and self-employ- ment. The female sex must be employed by the female sex. The first massive employer of womyn by womyn will be the NFAF, because only the NFAF is capable of such an economic policy. Wifismcan not employ womynas feminists only as Wifists, because

Wifist policy agrees to a female population employed by the male sex.

PENIS-VAGINA FIXATION: A misconception about female pleasure. A belief in ‘‘the efficacy of the penis-vagina combination for producing orgasm fora

woman,’’ anotion repudiated by, among many others, Dr. Helena Wright in 1947.

PHALLICIDENTITY: Where male identity is

claim to the rights and responsibilities of

centered. ‘‘A man’s identity is located in his concep- tion of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man’s © worth is located in his pride in his phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession ofa phallus. ... Women, then, by definition, have no

personhood.’’ Is the source of ‘‘all personal, psycho- — logical, social, and institutionalizeddominationon this earth... Asnonphallic beings, women are defined as submissive, passive, virtually inert. For — all of patriarchal history, we have been defined by . law, custom, and habit as inferior because of our | nonphallic bodies. Our sexual definition is one of ‘masochistic passivity’: ‘masochistic’ because even men recognize their systematic sadism against us; ‘passivity’ not because we are naturally passive, but — because our chains are very heavy and asaresult, we © cannot move.”’ |

RADICAL FEMINISM: [Radical feminists] call not only for the end of capitalism and the legal, educa- tional and occupational inequality of the sexes, but for the elimination of the biological family, at least as an ~ economic and childrearing institution; they also demand the elimination of sexual taboos which oper- ate to preserve the biological family. ... To Radical Feminists sex-class is the basic division in the world. All women are our natural allies (whether they know

it or not), all men are our enemy. ... [Editors’ note: which would have a more accurate definition of radi- cal feminism, the Oxford Dictionary or A Feminist Dictionary?]

SCUM MANIFESTO: SCUM stands for **Society for Cutting Up Men.”’ The Manifesto by Valerie Solonas (known as one of the most radical feminists of the late 1960s) is the case for the elimination of males in» order to eliminate male domination. Her(non-fatal) — shooting of Andy Warhol dramatized her argument... . [It] marked a radical departure in feminist thought; — it contains many valuable insights which were tobe — developed and elaborated on when the second wave of feminism truly took off.

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WIMMIN: We have spelt it this way because we are not women neither are we female. ... You may findi

And there are others...

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