Andrea Dworkin is dead

[lovingboth]

Susie Bright on the late Andrea Dworkin.

The most interesting omission from the googlism is "Andrea Dworkin is wrong", which was a popular t-shirt slogan among American bisexual women back in the late 80s/early 90s.

I'm struck by the difference in my reaction to her death with the reaction to, say, David English or Ronald Reagan's death, where there was a part of me sad they hadn't suffered more.

All of them were often Wrong - English's journalistic career can be summed up with his "Gay Gene Abortion Hope" headline while he was editor of the evil Daily Mail.

It's probably because, unlike them, she never had power.

Thank ghod.

Comments

[blackgrass.livejournal.com]

Amazing how forgiving human nature is. Though I agree\ with the reasons that her intentions were honourable to her own philosophy & observations in life. Andrea Dowking though, was unforgiving in her approach to opposition or any sexworkers opinions that she `could be wrong here`. She took no prisoners so to speak. Yes, she did probably mean well, but the road to hell, as they say is paved with good intentions. Andrea Dowkin seemed to be a miserable & unhappy woman, who died prematurely, without resolving her personal issues!In approaching sexworkers as she did, she held back the rights of sexworkers & firmly tried to seal the stigma of them too.