"In each case that a man or a ‘masculine’ principle is undermined by a danger from ‘the feminine’, the response is the same: to preserve masculine power by imposing negativizing gender stereotypes on the Other and putting them at a safe distance, in a lesser category. This gambit has worked for a long time, and the self-claimed masculine control of culture has been so successful that many women have not wished to be perceived as a part of a female interest group, reluctant to be associated with a subgroup countenanced by the patriarchy as lesser."

— Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (via ellielamothe)

(Source: fyeahfeministart, via ellielamothe)