Laws have regulated it and thus society has participated in ensuring its power to continue to possess women. According to Dworkin, laws emphasize gender polarity to avoid confusion of roles. Gender polarity in intercourse and the corresponding meanings and values attached to such differences also protects men from being treated as women a detestable fate. For if men like women could be violated, their power and status would be seriously breached and thus be dealt a deathblow on the male dignity. In drawing her discourse to a close, Dworkin expounds on misogyny and shows how women are equated with dirt.
Men manifest their hate for women by genital mutilation and intercourse.
Men punish themselves for feeling what they do and punish women for making them feel that way. In the end, whatever action men take against women, it still is and always will be women's fault. Finally, Dworkin posits that for change to happen, a redistribution of power has to occur. A change in power relations and an equality of worth that is socially true. In this struggle, the power of language can only be potent in changing the status of women if its context is changed.