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When a word is used to provoke hatred, it does not matter what the word actually means. What matters is only what the haters insist it means—the meaning they give it, the common prejudices they exploit.

— Andrea Dworkin The Power of Words (1978)

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Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.

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