“She followed ‘Women Hating’ with a book of essays and speeches, ‘Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses in Sexual Politics’ (1976). Dworkin’s first husband) when they were off their dope or you didn’t do what they told you to do and 4) She supported the death penalty for convicted wife-murderer Scott Peterson and unlike her politically correct fellow rad-feminists, saw nothing wrong with his being convicted as well of the murder of his unborn son.īut oh, the medium with which she clothed those messages! Here is how the New York Sun describes her literary oeuvre: They are: 1) Pornography is degrading to women, just as Dworkin said 2) Prostitution, aka “sex work” in the politically correct lingo of the Eve Ensler set, is not “empowering,” something Dworkin knew well because she tried it 3) Those beads-wearing, “peace ‘n’ love”-spouting flower children of the Sixties could be nasty, wife-beating brutes (e.g.
And I feel sort of the sorry for the old (or, sadly, not so old) gal who during life was a dead ringer for the Dutchess in “Alice in Wonderland.”ĭespite the sloppy bluejeans and the rat’s-nest ‘do (I hope they fix up her hair before they lay her out), despite all that rhetoric about sex being the same thing as rape, Dworkin actually made a couple of good points. Andrea Dworkin, the militant feminist’s militant feminist, is dead at age 58.
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