Gallagher and Dworkin: The Odd Couple
Andrea Dworkin must've left Maggie Gallagher some money in her will: how else to explain why the pay-for-play "marriage expert" would write such an elegiac column in honor of the firebrand feminist? Here's what Maggie had to say:
A fiercely radical feminist, she (along with law professor Catherine [sic.] Mackinnon [sic.]) pioneered a blistering feminist attack on pornography and male sexuality in general. As a former battered wife, she fused these concerns with a broadside against male violence against women. Think "intercourse is rape," and you are thinking vintage Dworkin.
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To most conservatives, Andrea Dworkin was an expletive to be deleted, demented, dangerous and probably lesbian. By rights, I should have hated her book.
Yes, I received a gift from Andrea, the kind of gift which, intellectually speaking, you can receive only from someone with whom you profoundly disagree. From the opposite ends of the political spectrum, we had each glimpsed a piece of the same truth. Against the backdrop of a pornographic Playboy culture that tried to teach us that sex is just a trivial appetite for pleasure, radical feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote that "sexual intercourse is not intrinsically banal."
I was not alone! Andrea saw it, too.
Read on for the touching tale of Maggie and Andrea's tea party. Or write to Maggie's box and she'll tell you more about it.
