You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.