The magical function of money is gendered; that is to say, women are not supposed to have money, because when women have money, pre­sumably women can make choices, and one of the choices that women can make is not to be with men.

And if women make the choice not to be with men, men will then be deprived of the sex that men feel they have a right to. And if it is required that a whole class of people be treated with cruelty and indignity and humiliation, put into a condition of servitude,

so that men can have the sex that they think they have a right to, then that is what will happen. That is the essence and the meaning of male dominance. Male dominance is a political system.—Life and Death (1997)