What does a woman want??
Freedom from being the thing looked at rather than the person looked back. Freedom from self-consciousness. Freedom from the duty of sexual stimulation of jaded male appetite, for which no breast ever bulges hard enough and no leg is ever long enough. Freedom from the uncomfortable clothes that must be worn to titillate. freedom from shoes that make us shorten our steps and push our buttocks out, Freedom from the humiliating insults heaped on us by top shelf of newsagents, freedom from rape, whether it is being undressed verbally by men on the building site, spied on us as we go about our daily business, stopped, propositioned or followed on the street,greasily teased by our male workmates, pawed by the boss, used sadistically or against our will by
the men we love, or violently terrorized and beaten by a stranger, or a gang of stranger.
- by GERMAINE GREER
THE FEMALE EUNUCH
Freedom from being the thing looked at rather than the person looked back. Freedom from self-consciousness. Freedom from the duty of sexual stimulation of jaded male appetite, for which no breast ever bulges hard enough and no leg is ever long enough. Freedom from the uncomfortable clothes that must be worn to titillate. freedom from shoes that make us shorten our steps and push our buttocks out, Freedom from the humiliating insults heaped on us by top shelf of newsagents, freedom from rape, whether it is being undressed verbally by men on the building site, spied on us as we go about our daily business, stopped, propositioned or followed on the street,greasily teased by our male workmates, pawed by the boss, used sadistically or against our will by
the men we love, or violently terrorized and beaten by a stranger, or a gang of stranger.
- by GERMAINE GREER
THE FEMALE EUNUCH
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