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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.172912.2724@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:29:12 GMT
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- In article <1h7hkdINNeuu@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.144024.28676@tc.cornell.edu>
- >shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
- >> While I certainly disagree with Dworkin, that won't stop me
- >> from disagreeing with you about her. Her suggestion that
- >> true consensuality can't exist between two people where
- >> there is a gross power imbalance is a valid one.
-
- >If I thought that were her point, I would of course agree
- >with her.
-
- And how do you think she arrived at her conclusions? Andrea
- Dworkin writes that all heterosexual sex is rape because ...
- Because what? What are the arguments she presents (without
- an ad hominem attack, if you please)?
-
- A thing I like about Andrea Dworkin is that she pisses off
- men so thoroughly. Men (notably straight white men) are so
- rarely the object of complete dehumanization. I don't think
- that turnabout is fair play, but I do feel that reading
- Dworkin could lead more men to the "Aha!" experience. Mind
- you, all too many who do read Dworkin don't think about
- it beyond being simply outraged, but maybe some encouragement
- to consider why they're so angry at Andrea Dworkin could
- result in a better understanding of what it is to be a
- woman or minority in this culture, and how it might feel
- to live as the object of this kind of hate, day in and day
- out.
- --
- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
-