> Stephen E Philion > --Dworkin's alligning with gentrifiers in US cities and
> cluster bombers
> > in Yugoslavia says enough about her type of feminism.
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> I have no truck with Andrea Dworkin's anti-porn "cultural radical
> feminist essentialism" either in theory or practice (the Minneapolis
> anti-porn ordinance she co-authored with C. Mackinnon) but where did she
> author or sign any statements for the NATO bombings of Serbia?
I think you're probably right, the only thing I could find on the topic was a post from Yoshie on Marxism Feminism that took on Mackinnon and Dworking for not having taken any public stands against manifestations of imperial power such as the bombing of Iraq, bombing of Yugoslavia, etc. In which case, Dworkin's public alliances with gentrifiers and right wing fundamentalists speaks for itself I guess...
On my mixup of Churchill and Dennis Means, you misread my post. I should havee responded when you mentioned this last week, but it didn't seem that important, in that it didn't take away from the key point of Churchill's sanctimonious lambasting of workers in the WTC bldg. or airplane passengers for being less than morally pure when he was so cooshycooshy with someone like Russel Means, a public supporter of Reagan's contras in Nicaragua and candidate for vice-president and president in a right wing political party. Comparing a janotor involved in the Justice For Janitors campaign with Churhcill's friend Means, well the contradictions of Churchill's moralizing is pretty plain...
> Steve, you mixed up Ward Churchill and Dennis Means last week. Mixing up
> Mackinnon (who did edit an anthology on Rape in war-time Bosnia from
> '92-"95) and Dworkin this week? And, insinuating that Mackinnon and/or
> Dworkin because of earlier stand on Bosnia were Hawkish on Serbia in "99?
> Michael Pugliese
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> http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeserb/comments/2001/e-a08052001.html
> One of the more absurd theories is a thesis of radical American feminist
> Andrea Dworkin that sex between a man and a woman is always rapist in
> nature, because woman is always in a subjugated position in the society -
> economically, politically, physically.
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> Serbia suffers from the other extreme, which in some concrete cases achieves
> hideous proportions. It has become a widespread practice that rape crimes
> receive the mildest possible sentences. Mirjana Kovacevic cites an example
> of a girl who had been molested by her father. After the trial, the father
> was ruled guilty for incest, but not for rape. Apparently, the Serbian
> judicial authorities reckon that the 12-year-old girl must have desired the
> sexual act with her father. Kovacevic and Djokic point out that marital rape
> is widespread in our society, and that all these issues need to be
> criminalized as soon as possible. "I'm afraid that we'll have catechism in
> schools before our society grasps the idea of basic human rights and sets
> them as priorities," says Mirjana Kovacevic.
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