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Gail Dines Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“If tomorrow women in the west woke up and decided they really like their bodies just think how many industries would go out of business - the cosmetic industry, the clothing industry, the diet industry, the gym industry - and then think of all the allied industries that support those industries. So when I say capitalism is dependent on women hating themselves, I'm not exaggerating.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Body Positive, Media Against Us
“Back in the day of women’s liberation, we felt that we could not claim success till all women were liberated from oppression. What we wanted was the end of patriarchal capitalism.”
— Gail Dines, Vagina Gazing at the New York Times
Tagged: Liberation, Patriarchy, Capitalism
“Explain to me how you can live in a culture saturated with pornography and how people ignore these messages.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“You can not fight corporations individual to individual, you do it as a collective movement.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Capitalism, Activism, Resist
“What oppression does is destroy our capacity for empathy because otherwise we would all be up in arms enraged at the fact that there's people out there who are oppressed. ”
— Gail Dines, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Tagged: Capitalism, Oppression, Apathy
“Put the slut label on a working class girl, put in on a girl of color and what studies show is that girls who get defined as sluts in high school have similar PTSD symptoms to rape victims.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Slut Shaming, Rape Culture, PTSD
“In our society women have two choices: you're either fuckable or you're invisible.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Porn Culture, Media Against Us, Sexism
“It is very very easy to seep into despair, but if we seep into despair we do the devil's work. Do you understand that? You do the work of your enemies.”
— Gail Dines, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Tagged: enemies, Resist
“Imagine if you had never in your life ever seen an image of a woman in a magazine. Imagine how differently you would feel about your body. My assumption is you would feel very different. So think about what has been ripped away from us now this is what surrounds us, this image of a body that none of us can aspire to.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Body Positive, Media Against Us
“How is it possible that women are buying into their own demise?”
— Gail Dines, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Tagged: feminism, Capitalism, Neoliberalism
“Orgasms are really nice, but revolutions are better.”
— Gail Dines, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Tagged: feminism, Revolution, Resist
“You cannot bring up boys on (porn) and not have that play out in the real world. How it will play out? Some will rape and become sexual sadists, some will just rape and not become sadists, some will nag their girlfriends. But mostly what you're doing is destroying the capacity for intimacy in men.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“So how do you make sure that those of us who are not starving, that those of us who have the riches the world has to offer, how do you make make sure that we don't march and say "It's not fair"? What you do is you create a material reality, ie capitalism, which is unfair and then you develop an ideological support system to legitimize that inequality.”
— Gail Dines, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Tagged: Capitalism, Inequality, Apathy
“We know from 40 years of research that the younger boys get to porn, the more it limits their capacity for intimacy, the more it decreases their empathy for rape victims, the more it increases depression and anxiety, and the more likely they are to engage in risky sexual behavior... now we have a generation of boys desensitized [to violence against women].”
— Gail Dines, Growing Up in a Pornified Culture | Gail Dines | TEDxNavesink
Tagged: toxic masculinity, Porn Industry, Rape Culture
“Feminists are your best friends. We are the only one rooting for your humanity, we are the only ones who say you are better than this. Because if my son is worth better than this, your sons are worth better than this. Because how dare you define my son as a predator who doesn't give a shit about women and he's willing to gag women and have no empathy. That's not my son... Don't be upset with me (a feminist), it's them (the porn industry) who are defining you not me.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t and it became the best selling sex tape for two years on the porn market. Now I want us, instead of thinking of Paris Hilton as a punchline in a joke, I want us to think of the trauma of being nineteen years old and that [sex tape] is circulating everywhere. Just [think] for a moment what it must have felt like. And then, as most women who are traumatized, there was two choices. You either run and hide and never ever come out again. Or you decided, in a kind of pathological way, to embrace that trauma and own it as your own. So what she said is, "If you're going to call me a slut, then guess what? I'm going to be the best fucking slut you've ever met in your life. Which is, by the way, a traumatic response to conditions that are out of your control.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Porn Culture, Slut Shaming, celebrity, sex tape
“Let's be honest, when we put down Cosmopolitan or Vogue or Vanity Fair, how do we feel? Like (do we) feel 'Oh I feel really slim and toned today. I feel really good about myself.'? How do you really feel? Like a fat pig would that be about right?

That's crucial because the more women hate themselves, the more we build up corporations.

And what I wanna argue is that the corporate globalization is built on the shoulders of western women who loathe, hate, and detest their bodies, and women in developing countries who produce, for exploited wages, the products we consume because we hate ourselves.”
— Gail Dines, Dr. Gail Dines
Tagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Exploitation
“The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ‘empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing low paid jobs while trying to raise families. In fact, there is a very good chance that elite women’s empowerment is built on the backs of other women whose exploited labor provides the goods and services that enable a good career and a comfortable lifestyle. The low pay of nannies, cooks, cleaners, sweat shop workers, and day care providers means that wealthier women are freed up to make a salary that no doubt does feel empowering.”
— Gail Dines, Vagina Gazing at the New York Times
Tagged: Liberation, feminism, empowerment, Social Class
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