[lbo-talk] Andrea Dworkin dead

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 11 12:36:05 PDT 2005


amadeus amadeus wrote:


>I appreciate a lot of Andrea Dworkin, and, heck, I'm a
>dude. I think like any decent thinker a lot of people
>distort her, particularly with the idea that all
>intercourse is rape.

I just wrote this to Susie Bright, reacting to her obit for AD, and she liked it so much she asked me to post it to her blog:


>What an odd and amazing character she was - clearly lots of
>brainpower, but so twisted up about lust and aggression. I guess
>that's what made her so compelling to read. Somehow all the bottled
>up lust & aggression came out, despite the best efforts of her
>ideology to contain it.

Doug



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