Kitty MacKinnon (wasRe: Sexual Harassment)

[Chuck0]

Kelley wrote:
> 
> At 02:32 AM 10/22/01 -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >    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?
> 
> heh. good call. here's what was said about her recently in a spat over
> cyberporn, libraries and filtering software at cyberia-L. i thought Mina
> would "like" it! :)
> 
> <forwarded>
>   "Eric C. Grimm" <ericgrimm at MEDIAONE.NET>
> Subject:  Re: [CYBERIA] MacKinnon Biography
> 
> In-Reply-To:  <OE47IMT5xDEX4TZvQBF0003515d at hotmail.com>
> 
> Kitty MacKinnon's bio hardly comes as news to those of us who have worked on
> issues related to war crimes prosecutions or who have studied at Michigan
> Law School in the past decade (some of us have done both).
> 
> What may really come as news to you, Laura, is that -- at least when I was a
> student at Michigan ('93 grad) -- there was a common sense of agreement
> among most male law students, or at least male students who were not gay
> (almost all of us had seen her speak at one time or another, and I even had
> a housemate who took one of her classes, thinking he might find it easier to
> pick up dates in MacKinnon's class, since just being present would make him
> seem more "sensitive") that of all the women at the law school (students,
> staff or professors), MacKinnon routinely ranked among the top five on
> almost every male student's list of most desirable sexual conquests.  I
> think it was the sense that MacKinnon's forceful personality (she'll deny
> it, but she got it from her dad) would make her really interesting in bed.
> 
> So tell me, Laura, can you recommend any software to prevent men (some of
> whom are now partners in prestigious law firms) from sitting in Kitty
> MacKinnon's class in law school and fantasizing about what they would like
> to do with her in the sack?

This forward could use some context. I'm not on that list, but is
"Laura" the infamous Laura Morgan, the pro-censorship librarian at
Chicago Public?

I've sparred with her many times over the filtering in libraries issue.
The pro-filtering side has lost that battle.

Chuck0