> At the end of the day, Andrea Dworkin was never so much a radical feminist as
> she was a champion of law-and-order policies, with a strong dash of
> vigilantism. She displayed, to my knowledge, little understanding of deeper critical
> arguments about how reliance on the law cut against some of her own projects and
> values. For all the radicalism others associated with her, she basically saw
> "law" as class-neutral. Her last piece of public writing was an unreflective
> editorial in support of the death penalty for Scott Peterson, and that
> editorial contained a rather explicit endorsement of the death penalty in general as a
> tool to use against the "monsters" of society. It really surprises me that
> conservatives hate her so much; she's really one of them and nearly always has
> been.
Amen! I can't recall ever reading anything written by Dworkin, but I've always held a low opinion of her based on her anti-porn work with municipalities. In my book, if it talks and walks like a religious right duck then it is essentially a religious right duck.
Chuck0