"It's not what Dworkin, whom I defy anyone to call
"hysterical" to my face,
is about. It's got nothing to do with anything she's
ever said. It's slime
thrown at her by the slime she's spent most of her
life fighting, and if you
believe what *that* slime says you'll believe
*anything*...
The statement "all men are rapists and should be
eliminated" is
typical of precisely the ideology she has consistently
and implacably
opposed throughout her career as a writer and
activist."
Well here's a quote attributed to Dworkin by the
(adulatory) blurb on the back cover of a book sitting
next to me at the moment, a book by Dworkin, a
collection of essays published in 1982 called 'Our
Blood':
"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when
ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then
will we know what it is to be free."
That quote is entirely consistent with my experience
of Dworkin's work - but I'm sure your experience is
much wider. I understand though that one of Dworkin's
newest proposals - I'm not sure if it's in her new
book, but I was told of it by someone, a Marxist
Feminist who is very hostile to Dworkin, but who
diligently keeps up with her ideas - is that women
should be given their own country to live in, away
from the contaminating influence of men. Now if that's
not hysterical separatism what is? And what else could
that sort of separatism be based on besides biologism?
Please correct me if I have the wrong end of the stick
here...
Cheers
Scott Hamilton
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Because:
It's not what Dworkin, whom I defy anyone to call
"hysterical" to my face,
is about. It's got nothing to do with anything she's
ever said. It's slime
thrown at her by the slime she's spent most of her
life fighting, and if you
believe what *that* slime says you'll believe
*anything*.
It's worth pointing out that Dworkin has described
biological determinism,
in particular the belief that men and women have
certain inherent and
inherently opposed qualities, as a deadly weapon; that
she regards it as
equivalent to racism, and believes that it underwrites
every kind of
genocide. The statement "all men are rapists and
should be eliminated" is
typical of precisely the ideology she has consistently
and implacably
opposed throughout her career as a writer and
activist.
Also, she's still around. She has a new book out. It's
called "Scapegoat",
and it's about nationalism and misogyny. I believe she
quotes Plath in it
somewhere, too...
- Dom
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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