[Mr. K]

who?

[Lovergirl]

Who is she?

[TheEditor]

Please! No Pics of Andrea!

[Petronski]

That woman could go to hell and think it was heaven.

[johnmilken]

Massive heart failure or a tragic shaving accident?

[Billthedrill]

One of the real, no-kidding haters. Catherine McKinnon's another one.

[mlc9852]

Who is Andrea Dworkin? I admit ignorance but if it's on FR, it must be something I should know.

[zip]

Who is she?

[withteeth]

Strange hoax, I imagine. If she died yesterday there'd have been bold headlines in the NYTimes.

[ken21]

i remember perusing a book of hers on display at a bookstore circa 1990.

one of her ideas:

a penis is a weapon.

[wideawake]

One of the architects of the abortion Holocaust.

I can't say I'm upset to hear this, as unChristian as that may sound.

[Ole Okie]

(In my best Pappy Yokum voice):

Died? I didn't even know she was sick!

[MisterRepublican]

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

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

[withteeth]

Dworkin on "Vargas Blonde Sambos" Here.

[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.

[society-by-contract]

Discussion over at ifeminists.net(the good ones:

http://www.ifeminists.net/interaction/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3006

[wardaddy]

man....i remember her little table set up on Broadway below the Ansonia where she would scream about pornographic violence towards women and whatnot on weekends. (80s)

a rather unpleasant woman but Godspeed in any event...he will know what to do with her.

[garyhope]

Gee, and the moderator removed my comment for taste? Compared to some of the other comments here, I thought it was mild.

Whadda I say? At least I didn't publish a picture of her.

[RobRoy]

On a related note, participating in sex reduces your risk of dememtia.

[Casloy]

She was one of the more notorius feminist men-haters.

She was a man hater? Like she really had a choice, huh? I think she may have died from terminal ugliness.