Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.
Interpretation
This quote asserts that female heterosexuality is shaped by societal structures rather than purely biological instincts.
Marilyn Frye's quote challenges the notion that female heterosexuality is solely a natural inclination of women towards men. Instead, she argues that it is a complex interplay of social institutions and practices that contribute to the oppression and exploitation of women by men, suggesting that societal factors play a significant role in shaping sexual orientation.
In practice
In a discussion about gender studies, this quote illustrates how societal norms shape perceptions of female sexuality.
If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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