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Catharine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

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Sex as Gender Doesn't Add Anything to Crimes

When men are prostitutes, they are taking on a feminine role in terms of the gender association. What I'm saying is like, for example, being in prison, if you're raped in prison, the men who rape other men in prison call the raped men girls. That's what I'm talking about. It is about a feminization, a feminine role. This is power is sexualized here. And that is part of a larger structure, socially, of male domination, which is political and can be changed.

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