I consider myself to be a feminist. That is to say, I have the audacity to believe that men and women are complete equals in all practical matters.
Andrea Dworkin believed otherwise and for some goddamn reason people called her a feminist as well. I get it, your fat, your ugly, and your husband beat you (Really? A Provo-Dutch Anarchist with violent tendencies? Shocking!) to the point where you were forced into prostitution in a foreign country just to stay alive. I can see how you would have a shitty attitude.
Why lash out at pornography? Equating porn with rape (indeed, she went on to label all heterosexual intercourse, consensual or otherwise, as rape) demeaned victims of actual rape, and dehumanized the actresses who made a conscious choice to make a living by making love (ok, ok, fucking) on camera.
Her justifications for these insane beliefs were that physical differences between men and women create a balance of power favorable to men. Of course its much more convoluted than that, but basically because men have the penis and want to stick it in the woman, they have all the power and woman have none. Also, women are too stupid to know better than to be prostitutes or porn stars, and need to be protected from themselves.
There is a word for a person who believes that women are inherently weaker or stupider than men. And no, that word is not 'feminist'.
And of course here is the web-site that led me on this rampage of woman hating:
The ideological offspring of Dworkin, shat out of her hate filled ass.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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