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- From: joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: I come not to praise Andrea Dworkin
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.155553.18345@spdcc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:55:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec22.155553.18345
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- In article <1h6t87INNccf@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- >In article <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu>
- >twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >
- >Hi, Tim! Sorry we didn't get a chance (because I was just
- >a *teeny* bit "under the weather") to talk last October,
- >
- >> Assuming for the moment that Andrea Dworkin's suggestions are
- >> clueless, inappropriate, and nonsensical (and it's been my experience
- >> that feminists who are perceived to be such are usually maligned by a
- >> hysterical, incredibly myopic media) it wouldn't invalidate my quote.
- >
- >I wouldn't look to Andrea "everyday, in-a-loving-relationship,
- >vaginal intercourse is fully as evil as the gas chambers at
- >Auschwitz" Dworkin for suggestions about *anything*. Her suggestions
- >are clueless, inappropriate, nonsensical, and, surprise, surpirse,
- >homophobic (men being the beasts we are, it doesn't matter what our
- >sexual orientation is: we're all genocidal rapists bent on exterminating
- >women from the face of the earth.) Yawn. There's no reason whatsoever
- >to listen to a single word Andrea Dworkin says.
-
- You mean "Pornography is what men do to women" Dworkin? I wish there
- was a Dworkin calendar like there is a Quayle quarterly, so there
- could be a little Dworkin koan for every day of the year to scream
- with laughter about. I think the only thing which surpasses her
- polemics is her fiction writing.
-
- Doubleyawnplus.
-
-
- --
- US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.
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