"the fact that I don’t myself believe all men are absolute pigs makes me even more enraged and disgusted with the overwhelming majority who are, precisely because I know men could be so different. Women who regard all men as implacable enemies because they are biologically male..

are simply giving men an excuse for their male supremacist behaviour (“I can’t help being such a pig –it’s my biology. I didn’t ask to be born male”)” (Rev/Rad Newsletter, 7, 1981).

"It is not our biology that oppresses us, it is the value that men place on it...Our biology oppresses us because of the value that men place on it, per se it is not oppressive" (Hanmer et al, 1977) 'Scarlet Woman'.

“Radical feminism insists that women as a social class or a social group are oppressed by men as a social group as well as individually by men who continue to benefit from that oppression and do nothing to change it; the system through which men do this has been termed patriarchy

;radical feminism is women-centered and stresses both the personal as political and the need for collective action and responsibility; it is ‘power’ rather than ‘difference’ which determines the relationship between women and men” (Rowland & Klein, 1996:13).

“I said that I would not be associated with a movement that advocated the most pernicious ideology on the face of the earth. It was this very ideology of biological determinism that had licensed the slaughter and/or enslavement of virtually any group one could name,

including women by men” (Andrea Dworkin, 1977).