How Did We Skip Her? Andrea Dworkin: RIP

[shesulsa]

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[rmcrobertson]

"Some people who cry most," eh? Interesting language, on a thread discussing men's aggressivity.

To repeat what I wrote several pages ago: I don't find Dworkin's ideas terribly interesting or original, since they're pretty much just a ripoff of DeBeauvoir's "second sex," discussion. And I certainly think her "action," items are asinine. At a bare minimum, she should've thought a lot longer and harder about getting into political bed with the likes of Pat Robertson. Good thing that she really wan't very influential on academic ideas, because hers are second-rate at best.

However, I also recognize what's going on when a pack of guys start shrieking about people, ideas and books they know little or nothing about.