I also hadn't heard she died. Having never been to college, and being pretty firmly outside academia, my only real exposure to Dwarkin (and --excuse my spelling --McKinnon?) has been when grad student friends bring her up as an example of Why Feminism Is Ridiculous. (A quote about all sex being rape is the one that is most often tossed around.) I don't think feminism is ridiculous or irrelevant at all, and have mostly bad feelings toward someone who can be used in an educated woman's argument for why she is not a feminist.
I have always been confused, though, as to why people immediately bring her writings up as an example of What Feminists Think. I wonder if it's because it *is* so extreme and therefor dismissible. Now I sound a bit like a conspiracy theorist.
Anyway, of course it takes her death to make me realize that I might actually want to read her writing. It always goes that way. (thinking of Will Eisner now.)
Sorry for the rambling, I am thinking outloud and should probably move it over to my own journal.
Thanks for the link. And the news. That's all I really meant to say. Yep.
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Date: 2005-04-12 04:56 pm (UTC)I have always been confused, though, as to why people immediately bring her writings up as an example of What Feminists Think. I wonder if it's because it *is* so extreme and therefor dismissible. Now I sound a bit like a conspiracy theorist.
Anyway, of course it takes her death to make me realize that I might actually want to read her writing. It always goes that way. (thinking of Will Eisner now.)
Sorry for the rambling, I am thinking outloud and should probably move it over to my own journal.
Thanks for the link. And the news. That's all I really meant to say. Yep.