on the other" (415).
MacKinnon essentially examines each of the four issues and finds that they are related to what we call normal sexual behavior, and in each case she finds that only male ideas of what is right and wrong prevail in the law. The disjunction between what the law says and what women actually feel creates tensions in women's minds and makes them suffer all the more for their abuse.
MacKinnon's main point is that these issues have been defined by males and that women have not been consulted as to what these issues mean to them. She writes,
The fact is that what we do see, what we are allowed to experience, even in our own suffering, even in what we are allowed to complain about, is overwhelmingly constructed from the male point of view (418).
She finds that women have to take control of their own destinies and to do so firs
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