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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Dworkin NEVER said "all sex is rape" [View all]BainsBane
(57,740 posts)but my understanding is that Dworkin was a separatist feminist, which means a lesbian. She was also an academic. Her ideas about separatist feminism were part of her academic writings.
I am pointing to this post as such an example. In ridiculing Dworkin, you are objecting to the ideology of separatist feminists and separatist feminists are lesbians. You insist her ideas are illegitimate.
Then there is the question of why you all are so obsessed with Dworkin. As someone in this subthread noted, she is most often evoked by men who look to discredit feminists. it's not like people here are saying all male penetration is rape, or sex with a man is by nature rape, so how does that have anything to do with rape culture? The OP that invoked Dworkin to deny rape culture was close to incoherent. It lacked logic and made no sense.
And you really ought to knock off the guilt by association fallacy you invoke so often. As I pointed out, you are yourself on the right side of the spectrum on a few issues. I wouldn't, however, call you a right-winger in general because of that. For you to continue to evoke the right-wing trope against women who oppose pornography is cynical and, frankly, on the hypocritical side.