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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.152237.1124@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:22:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.123033.4883@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >I took Melinda to be saying, in
- >effect, that despite that, there is an image that could
- >be revealing to anyone who will consider it, embedded in
- >Dworkin's extreme rhetoric.
-
- More or less. As I wrote earlier, just because she's wrong
- about an awful lot doesn't mean that she's wrong about
- everything. She's starting from what I consider to be a
- reasonable assumption (the problematic nature of
- consensuality in unequal relationships) and drawing some
- outrageous conclusions. That doesn't invalidate her
- starting point.
-
- We've discussed, in an earlier thread, that it's hard to
- "get it" until you've had some direct experience with
- oppression yourself. I believe that you can sometimes fix
- automotive electrical problems by driving really fast
- across a bump. I believe that you can sometimes fix
- hardware problems by power-cycling. Sometimes tripping
- over a book on the library floor can help put a problem in
- a new perspective. And if Andrea Dworkin can jolt some men
- into considering *why* they get so angry with her, then she
- will at least have accomplished something. Mind you, the
- number of men I've seen actually think about their anger
- with her and why she writes what she writes still numbers
- in the small single digits. It's all too easy to dismiss
- her as a man-hater; I'd like to see more people (men
- especially) consider the "why" of it all.
- --
- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
-