Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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169
He shrugged.
4
170
"I do not blame the males," I said, "nor the females.
4
171
Both are fellow victims.
4
172
In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his demasculinization.
4
173
He lives miserably, of course, unfulfilled, frustrated, and subject to hideous diseases, and has little to console himself with other than the ignorant servility with which he has worn his chains, taking smug, righteous pride in his allegiance to them".
4
174
"On such a world, then, women have won?" asked the man.
4
175
"No," I said, "the machine has won.
He shrugged.
"I do not blame the males," I said, "nor the females.
Both are fellow victims.
In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his demasculinization.
He lives miserably, of course, unfulfilled, frustrated, and subject to hideous diseases, and has little to console himself with other than the ignorant servility with which he has worn his chains, taking smug, righteous pride in his allegiance to them".
"On such a world, then, women have won?" asked the man.
"No," I said, "the machine has won.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )