The abominable She is held responsible for everything bad, fearful, or alienating that ever happened to the fully-human-He. Any assertion of female self leads to the inevitable decline of society; and when the abominable She calls attention to herself as human, not object, she violates the male's most essential sense of masculine self. Every attempt she makes to reclaim the humanity he has stolen from her makes her subject to insult, ridicule, and abuse. In his view, she is not a woman unless she acts like a woman as he has defined woman.

- Andrea Dworkin

'The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman's consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite.'

Sandra Lee Bartky

Increasingly, society is presenting sexual exploitation as “sex work” – exploitation repackaged as empowering, liberating, and progressive. This infectious social narrative comes with an aggressive insistence for no one to question men being granted unfettered sexual access to marginalized young people. We are to somehow readily accept that young women truly desire to be groped and penetrated by 10 strange men or more every weekend in order to pay tuition fees.

'The result of this deeply male-dominated culture is that the male experience, the male perspective, has come to be seen as universal, while the female experience--that of half the global population, after all - is seen as, well, niche.'

Caroline Criado Perez