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Thursday, April 14, 2005

On Andrea Dworkin

This is the best meditation I've seen yet on Andrea Dworkin's passing. My doctrinaire feminist period was so brief you would have missed it had you blinked, and I never read Dworkin, but she and her work shaped the world I live in in a lot of ways, some I appreciate more than others.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to say BOO-yah, I won't be complicit in sexism, I'll never take comfort in the parting gifts that girls receive for being good at being female, and then after a while I remember, oh yeah... it would be a lot like being Andrea Dworkin. Which I guess is why most women don't do it.

Read it. Even if you don't know who Dworkin was, read it.

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