Pornography: Men Possessing Women

01Dworkin quoted Hustler headlines verbatim, arguing the text constituted explicit statements of male intent toward women, not fantasy.
02She analyzed a 1978 Hustler cartoon depicting a meat grinder producing female flesh labeled 'All-American Maid,' treating it as political declaration.
03The book proposed that pornography met the legal definition of sex discrimination and should be actionable under civil rights law — a claim Catharine MacKinnon later codified into an ordinance.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi , about 1300, Hereford Cathedral , England

A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" ( viseroij ), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalogue Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen ("Collection of a Crowd of Tulips"). Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins)…

Pornography: Men Possessing Women

Andrea Dworkin's 1981 book treated pornographic magazines as primary documents, quoting captions and headlines verbatim as legal evidence of stated contempt — treating Hustler the way a historian treats a war communiqué. The publishers' own words became the indictment.

The History of Sexuality

Foucault's 'History of Sexuality' — three volumes published before AIDS killed him — argued the Victorian era didn't repress sex; it invented an entirely new way to talk, confess, and be made by it.

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev

Soviet serial killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev served human meat kebabs to guests at dinner parties in 1980s Kazakhstan, his metal front teeth gleaming. At least seven women were killed and partially eaten before a guest found a head in his fridge.

Patty Hearst

The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $6 million in free food as Patty Hearst's ransom — then she picked up a rifle, renamed herself 'Tania,' and robbed a San Francisco bank with them 10 weeks later.

Mappa mundi

Drawn on a single sheet of calfskin in 1300, the Hereford Mappa Mundi places Jerusalem at the geometric center of the known world, with Paradise at the top and sea monsters filling every ocean — a complete cosmology on 1.58 square metres of vellum.

Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller wrote that rape was not aberrant male violence but a 'conscious process of intimidation' — meaning every man who never raped still benefited from the fear every rapist produced. The indictment had no exceptions.

2023 Tour de France

Over seven decades, press motorcycles weaving through the peloton have shattered collarbone, kneecap, and career — one cameraman's vehicle knocked Joseba Beloki into a fracture pattern that ended his season in 2003.

Tulip mania

In 1637 Amsterdam, a single Semper Augustus tulip bulb sold for 10,000 guilders — enough to buy a canal house. The market collapsed in one week in February, leaving traders holding contracts for flowers that didn't exist.

Killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

Sixteen-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen eating dinner in Yemen, was killed by a drone two weeks after his father. The Obama administration later said it was a mistake. His grandfather asked why.