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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:27:56 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Dec26.171035.12605@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1hoi7rINN2br@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1992Dec29.141645.11478@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.141645.11478@tc.cornell.edu>
- shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
-
- [ ... ]
- > I think that what we're really seeing is that while misogyny
- > is a problem that should be addressed in due time but isn't
- > something to get overly exercised about, man-hating is a
- > heinous crime of major proportions that must be decried
- > loudly and publicly whenever we see even a hint of it.
-
- Above and beyond what any individual man might think about
- women, misogyny is systemic. Man-hating is not. In any case,
- if any man were to write about women -- all women, regardless
- of their political affiliations, ethnicities, or sexualities --
- using rhetoric even slightly like that employed by Andrea Dworkin
- in her screeds against men, he would be dismissed by *everyone*
- as a crank or worse.
-
- Arne
-