Meredith Tax Quotes

Meredith Tax was an American writer and political activist. She was regarded as a pioneer of the US women's liberation movement.

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✵ 1942

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“Cultural products which present women who do not want to be household slaves or universal mothers or sex objects as bitches or sexual failures objectively aid male supremacy.”

Meredith Tax

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

“Cultural products that present people who have no money or power as innately stupid or depraved, and thus unworthy of money or power, are in the interests of the ruling class and the power structure as it stands.”

Meredith Tax

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

“Cultural products which present foreign wars as the heroic effort of a master race to ennoble mankind are, to the degree they are successful as art, objectively in the interests of imperialists, who are people who make foreign wars against other races for profit.”

Meredith Tax

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

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