structural oppression can influence who we want
We don’t know how women’s sexuality would develop if we didn’t live in a male dominated society.
What we do know is women’s oppression by men is a sexual oppression, that men want to use women for reproductive purposes, and view women as sexual objects. We know that men can and do use to force, coercion and manipulation to get women to have sex with them. For example, men rape women, have claimed women as property and exchanged their daughters in marriage with other men, and have kept women out of the workplace so women would be dependant on partnering with men to survive. We know men ‘correctively’ rape lesbians. We also know that men socialise women to prioritise men, to highly value men, to empathise with men above themselves and other women, to defer to men and to romanticise men, in order that women will fulfil the roles men have allocated to women, i.e. wife/mother to his children and sexual object. This is coercion and manipulation. Psychologists who adopt a behavioural model believe all behaviour is a product of environmental influences. They have proven in many experiments, that by manipulating the environment they can get animals and people to behave in a certain way, it is called operant/instrumental conditioning. Their experiments have also demonstrated, that when something is repeatedly paired with something pleasurable, it can become associated with pleasure and trigger a pleasurable response by itself, it is called classical/Pavlovian conditioning. Psychologists who adopt a cognitive social learning model understand that conditioning, observation of others, internal mental states and society all influence how one develops their personality and likes/dislikes. What feminists like Angela are saying, is that men coerce and manipulate women and the environment so they can get what they want from women, which is sex and/or a partner to birth their offspring.
In Angela’s study males coerced and manipulated young lesbian women into having sexual contact with them. Those males were displaying the same male sexual entitlement, coercion and manipulation towards lesbians as other males do. Therefore, the study supports Angela’s previous article, that males coerce and manipulate women into having sex with them. Those who claim or imply lesbian women denying males sexual access to their bodies, is due to lesbians structurally oppressing heterosexual males, would be engaging in extreme DARVO and a massive patriarchal reversal. It is heterosexual males who try to coerce and manipulate lesbian women into having sex with them, they are the very worst of sexually entitled coercive, manipulative males.