Speaking of Castration

Speaking of Castration - Mary Daly is a feminist separatist academic. She taught until recently at Boston College, and is famous for not allowing men into her Women's Studies classes.

A few weeks ago, she wrote on society's "need" to limit the number of males - to perhaps a one-to-nine ratio with women.

WIE: In your latest book, Quintessence, you describe a utopian society of the future, on a continent populated entirely by women, where procreation occurs through parthenogenesis, without participation of men. What is your vision for a postpatriarchal world? Is it similar to what you described in the book?
MD: You can read Quintessence and you can get a sense of it. It’s a description of an alternative future. It’s there partly as a device and partly because it’s a dream. There could be many alternative futures, but some of the elements are constant: that it would be women only; that it would be women generating the energy throughout the universe; that much of the contamination, both physical and mental, has been dealt with.

What Is Enlightenment Magazine [WIE]: Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article, “The Future—If There is One—Is Female,” writes: “At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.” What do you think about this statement?

MD: I think it’s not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore.

There are a zillion other quotes I could pull out of big articles like this - from "What Is Enlightenment" magazine - but frankly, it's too depressing. Radical feminists do take this stuff seriously - and I wonder if or why the irony escapes them: reading Mein Kampf wasn't much uglier than this.

Just read it.