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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Miz Scarlet: [QB] Calling Dworkin boring would be a very serious stretch. Very few people who have read her -- especially the breadth of her work -- find they feel bored or apathetic. Most people have very, VERY strong reactions to her work. Dworkin was, in all senses of the word, a radical. Radicals ARE very much on the outer fringes of things: they define extremes. I never by any means agreed with everything she had to say, and there has been loads of it over the years I have very strongly DISagreed with. However, I found that other older I got, the more some of it DID resonsate with me, and even that which I disagreed with, I could understand better, and could see where she was coming to the conclusions she made from, even if I didn't agree with them. I know that was a surprise to me over the years, as back in college, I would never have predicted I'd be able to agree with ANY of it, or have any of it resonate with me. And I expect that ten years from now, I may well agree with more of it than I do now, though I don't imagine I'll ever find myself on the same page as she was on nearly anything, by any stretch. But I do know that I grew into certainly a respect for her, and I do feel that culturally, losing her was a loss, especially to feminism. I think we very much need our radicals. Victimization was a big part of some of what she did and had to say, but I think it's important to remember that Dworkin was very horribly victimized in her life in quite a number of ways, and in ways most people (thankfully) won't ever have to grapple with. One thing she had to offer per her viewpoint was a perspective that most other very visible feminists do not have and have not had, as the overwhelming amount of feminist lit out there does tend to be from anglo-saxon, middle-class women who have, in many ways, lived lives which in plenty of respects, have been very charmed. A lot of feminist authors talk ABOUT women like Dworkin, women who have been the butt of profound sexual violence, but very few have BEEN those women. (FYI, like her partner, Stoltenberg, Dworkin was also gay.) [/QB][/QUOTE]

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