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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
property of males, not chosen, but forced upon you as your lords and masters—so that such a vicious social system may be glorifici as possessed of spiritual peculiarity. You are worshipped 25 goddesses. Are you? Don't you know that the laws of Manu prescribe that your supremo clutv is to satisfy the sexual (csire of man, not of your own choice, and bear children for your lords? According to the surne scriptural injunctio!), you must be faithful in your SCX-slavery ; but your partner can have more than one instrument of Scy-satisfaction. The lordly imale can possess more th:v) one sexual field to plant his precious seeds, and the helpless wives are obliged to rear that insignificant male contribution up to now human heings who again become the property of the peler familias. As privately owned fertile sicles, you are kept zealously fenced in. You are not allowed, if you so clcsirc, as most of you verhaps de desire, although you may not admit it even to vourselves, to welcomic desirable guests to graze on the field which naturally belongs to you, but has been usurped by men to whom you are tied by compulsion.
Well, personally I am glad that I came to this world as an animal. I did not originate in the slavery of my mother. In bearing me, my mother did not act as the means of production owned by an egoistic male, but as a free agent performing a function inherent in her own being. I am proud
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