“A professor at the University of California-Riverside called heterosexuality ‘tragic’ and stated that men are often pulled into toxic masculinity because of it,” reports Campus Reform. Her negative comments about men echo leading feminist legal theorists, who have argued that most or all heterosexual sex is rape — such as Harvard’s Catharine A. MacKinnon, who says “heterosexuality is the eroticization of dominance and submission,” and MacKinnon’s collaborator, feminist Andrea Dworkin, who suggested that all heterosexual sex is rape. MacKinnon’s writings have been cited with approval by progressive judges such as Spottswood Robinson III in sexual harassment cases.
Campus Reform reports:
University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward was recently featured in an Insider article titled, “Why heterosexual relationships are so bad for us, according to a sex researcher” in which she told the outlet that heterosexuality “tragic.”
Ward has also authored a book called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.
”It really looks like straight men and women don’t like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny,” or woman-hating behavior, Ward told Insider. “From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic.”
The article cites an uptick in divorces and relationship problems among straight couples since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
”I think in some ways the pandemic is revealing the tragedy of heterosexuality to people who might not have otherwise paid attention to it,” said Ward.
The article goes on to list Ward’s reasons for being outspoken against heterosexuality, which are also found in her book….According to the University of California-Riverside’s website, Ward teaches courses focusing on feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies.
Feminists like Ward leave the false impression that abuse is more common among heterosexual couples than same-sex couples. In reality, peer-reviewed research generally shows higher rates of domestic violence among same-sex couples than among heterosexual couples. Nor are men especially abusive: A number of studies show the highest rates of abuse occurring among lesbian couples, even higher than among gay men. “61% of bisexual women and 44% of lesbian women surveyed in 2013 reported some type of intimate partner violence,” much higher than the rate for heterosexual women. Among heterosexual couples, the gender breakdown varies depending on how one defines domestic violence, and whether one relies on victim reporting or other measures. But some studies say heterosexual women are as likely to engage in domestic abuse as heterosexual men. The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance (DAVIA), says that “a compilation of 343 scholarly investigations conducted in 40 countries concluded that ‘women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships with their spouses or opposite-sex partners.’”
