ABSTRACT
If we could see more clearly how and why wars are waged, could we see more clearly how to end them? If we knew more about why men experience combat as the ultimate test of their masculinity, would we know more about how to resolve conflicts in nonviolent ways? If we did not hold on so desperately to masculinity, might we not also then be able to let go of warfare?
Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic. A sexual revolution might destroy what men do so well together, away from women: the making of His-story, the making of war, the triumph of phallic will.
—Phyllis Chesler +It should require no great imaginative leap to perceive a deep relationship between the mentality of rape and genocide. The socialization of male sexual violence in our culture forms the basis for corporate and military interests to train a vicious military force.
—Mary Daly