Feminist author Andrea Dworkin dead at 58
 

Andrea Dworkin, a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women’s civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence, has died, her agent and family said Monday. She was 58

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While I certainly don't agree with her point of view, I have much respect for anyone that can fight that agressively and that long for any cause. That being said, her point of view is certainly a luddite view of adult entertainment, and so my business is better without her.

Alex

I feel kind of the same way Alex. I didn't agree with her stuff, or at least some of it, but I admired her pugnacity.

was completely against her stuff and view of point - but rest in peace!

Very smart woman, completely misguided.

I think she based far too much of her work on assumptions about men, and how men think. And I believe those assumptions arose from her own awful experiences - she was beaten and raped by her first husband, and worked as a prostitute for a time. She then went on to write that all sexual intercourse was a form of rape. That kind of thinking is radical in the extreme and should not have been given such weight in the debate about women and porn.

Here's hoping radical anti-porn feminism dies with her.

There's a few more who should go with her. I have little compassion for people who would vehemently oppose me, my work, or my right to freedom of speech.