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You know ? The most disturbing people you'll ever encounter will be ordinary people . Just regular people who go to work, like to hike, have a dog, likes waffles. We always conceptualize evil as something that comes from someone who is so unfathomably like us. Sometimes, it is like that. However, most of the time it will just your average person.

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i read dworkin as a teenager, and immediately bounced off for sexual subjectivity reasons. instantly knew dworkin had no place in her heart for a girl such as i was, that she would only want to save me from myself in a way that i found condescending and callously, cruelly destructive of my hard-won navigation of my own compromised subjectivity and agency. i did not feel seen or fought for - i thought “this woman hates me even as she believes she is fighting for me, and she thinks if i disagree with her it must mean i’m quite stupid.” politically, that extends outwards from myself - her feminism repels me because i find the dehumanizing, misogynistic ways she thinks of and talks about sex workers simply unacceptable. i like this review of an edition of dworkin’s collected works as a summary of most of my feelings, although i am substantially less generous; i do find this unforgivable: Consequently, portions of her writing are ghastly, maybe even unforgivable in their misogyny. “One does not violate something by using it for what it is,” she wrote in Pornography: Men Possessing Women. “A whore cannot be raped, only used.” In 1993’s “Prostitution and Male Supremacy,” a speech not included in Last Days, Dworkin assumed the mantle of an imagined “john” and said that “the prostituted woman” is “nobody real, I don’t have to deal with her . . . She is perceived as, treated as—and I want you to remember this, this is real—vaginal slime. She is dirty; a lot of men have been there. A lot of semen, a lot of vaginal lubricant. . . . Her mouth is a receptacle.” Dworkin imagined herself a champion for prostitutes when she wrote this: someone fighting “for” them by telling the truth about their lives. But the only people who ever spoke to me like were faceless free chatters hiding behind disposable screen names. When I started seeing clients in person instead of online, no one ever said anything so hateful—and I don’t know how I could trust or organize alongside a woman who would. By articulating the internal monologue of the world’s worst women-hater, she became his mouthpiece.

So, Anon, I think that you greatly misinterpreted everything Dworkin was trying to do. Though you may have come to different conclusions on your circumstances and found Dworkin's conclusions to be opposed to you, that does not immediately place her within the hostile camp. In fact, I think she takes great care as to make herself as much as an ally to other women as possible, even when analyzing and critiquing their actions and behavior like in Right-wing woman. She is deeply aware of the conditions that would cause women to do and to defend things she identifies as counterproductive to female liberation. She would not think you're stupid, just trying to live within the deeply oppressive society around you, which isn't condescending. Pornography: Men Possessing Women was researched intensively, and Dworkin pulls all of her examples directly from the real testimonies from women victimized as a result to the sex industry and men corrupted by pornography. In your examples of her speaking ''ghastly and unforgivably misogynistic'' she is not speaking from herself, but conceptualizing the misogyny of men towards women in prostitution-- supported by the various examples of men's words and actions and by testimonies of women victimized, including her own experiences. I'm glad you were never subjected to abuse in person from clients, but many women are, often. As shown from the vitriol you received over the internet, men like that do exist, and they definitely don't stop when there isn't a screen. Though it is not your experience and you do not share her views, it is so for literally hundreds of thousands of women. I invite you to maybe revisit Andrea Dworkin, because the past has a way of distorting memories and it is good to revisit theory in order to refresh the memory and re-evaluate our stances, etc.

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neopetdestroyer

Is it just me or is this comment insanely funny

woman-for-women

Pairs well with this

spiderfreedom

This has the exact same vibe as that FBI report saying it's hard to infiltrate anarchists because they are "scholars of history" and read too many books for infiltrators to keep up with.

the-rad-menace

Speaking of smart, well read women, here's a link to an extensive library of Radical Feminist writing! There's even a fiction section.

the-fault-in-our-blogs

So, I was browsing around the "library of Radical Feminist writing!" And one of the books is written by a LIBERTARIAN man who was founder of the Christian Principles Party in Ireland.

CONGRATULATIONS RADBLR, you consider Christian Principles to be "radical feminism". Behold, radical feminism:

A Christian libertarian bloviating about Gnosticism: so feminist! 😍