Andrea Dworkin has died?

Wiki-Pedia ^ | 4/11/05

[Borges]

The sources at the link seem to be pretty credible...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Andrea_Dworkin

[nina0113]

WOW. Basically she's advocating "doing" anything that moves. I used to work with a guy like that - you couldn't really call him bisexual, he was more omni-sexual. He used to come in to work and share stories of what he'd done to, with, & for whomever the night before, till this nice Mormon girl in the office, who was THE most non-confrontational person you can imagine, jumped up and tore him a new one, threatened him with harassment charges & everything. Good for her.

[MisterRepublican]

Andrea Dworkin was a prostitute in the mid 1960's.

http://www.nndb.com/people/761/000024689/

[StoneGiant]

I'm tellin' you, there ain't enough Shiner Bock in all of Texas to make that look good.

 

 

[Temple Owl]

"Every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them." -- Gloria Steinem

That tells it all.

[StoneGiant]

They say death comes in threes. She must have eaten the other two.

 

 

[Melas]

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

A commitment to sexual equality with males . . . is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

There you go, everything you ever needed to know about Andrea Dworkin, but were afraid to ask. As you can see, she was a Grade-A1 Nutgirl. Still, it's rather sick that some are actually happy that she died.

[Petronski]

OMG!

LOL

[withteeth]

Dworkin on "Vargas Blonde Sambos" Here.

[iconoclast]

Well, she is a real tire biter.

I have no idea what that means ... but I can't stop laughing at it.

[Vaquero]

which one is she....Patty or Selma???

[Mr. Jeeves]

LORD HAVE MERCY! MY EYES!

What are you complaining about? That's actually an unusually flattering portrait of her. ;)

[FreedomPoster]

You're a glutton for punishment.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You had to ask.

[iconoclast]

she does say that was a distortion of her position.

What was her position?

Standing astride with whip in hand?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

guffaw

[cspackler]

Just a few weeks ago, I was walking the aisles of my local grocery store here in Iowa when a familiar image from my long distant past caught the corner of my eye.

"Nah, couldn't be..." I said as I continued on my way. But, I couldn't resist and turned back to see what it was.

There, on the shelf in front of me in all of its resplendent glory, was a shiny new 12 pack of Shiner Bock, now available here in the good old Midwest.

I wiped the tear from my cheek, and placed my wonderful discovery lovingly into my cart.

Oh, the pleasure with which it was disposed of...

[CougarGA7]

Think of dogs that chase cars.

[iconoclast]

She's a dead ringer for Candy what's-her-name on CNN!

[raccoonradio]

from the Guardian Unlimited, posted "10 mins ago" according to Yahoo news:

Feminist icon Andrea Dworkin dies

Simon Jeffery
Monday April 11, 2005

The American feminist icon, writer and campaigner Andrea Dworkin, who linked pornography to rape and violence, died at the weekend, her agent said today. She was 59 years old.
Her radical-feminist critique of pornography began with her first book, Woman Hating, published when she was 27. She campaigned frequently on the subject, helping to draft a law in 1983 that defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women.

The law, later overturned by an appeal court as unconstitutional, was inspired by the case of Linda Marchiano, who as Linda Lovelace said she had had been violently coerced into pornography, including the film Deep Throat, but had no recourse to the courts.


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The drive of Ms Dworkin's writing and activism was to break the silence around violence against women but her wider career saw her become a figure of adulation and loathing in equal measure. To opponents she was an archetypal man-hater, killjoy and proponent of censorship, but supporters rallied to her impassioned lectures and books. Gloria Steinem, a fellow feminist, said she was one of a handful of writers each century "who help the human race to evolve".
Ms Dworkin's life as a political activist began early. In 1965, when she was 18, she was arrested at the US mission to the United Nations, protesting against the Vietnam war. She was sent to the New York City Women's House of Detention, where she was given a brutal internal examination.

Her testimony about the experience was reported worldwide and helped to bring public pressure to bear to close the prison down. An unmarked community garden now grows where it once stood.

As well as political works, Ms Dworkin was also the author of two novels and a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including the Guardian.

Ms Dworkin's agent, Elaine Markson, said the cause of death was not known but she had become increasingly frail as her knees had weakened and she suffered a series of falls. She died at the home in Washington DC she shared with John Stoltenberg, her partner of 30 years and husband since 1998.

[justshutupandtakeit]

ROTFLMAO. Unbelievable as it may sound she was married (at one time.)