And one more time, Andrea Dworkin never said "All Sex is Rape"... but how many times does that have to be said for anti-feminists to believe it?

Java man has a question. It’s not new and it’s not original but it is anti-feminist and fueled by misogyny. Anti-feminism and misogyny isn’t new or original either. With thanks, again, to Toto, what follows is from Yahoo Answers. (You may click *here* to see the rest of the answers, most of which are dripping with contempt for feminists and for Andrea in particular.)

I will answer your question fully below, but a better question is this:

Why
do so many people–usually anti-feminist men–keep claiming that
radical feminists said those things, when it’s been demonstrated again
and again that they never did? Proof that what you claim she said is a
lie is below.

I notice you and the others promoting these
misquotes as truths don’t ever quote the next two–and I will be happy
to let you know where the quotes come from:

“I have spent 20
years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and
scream, that takes 30 seconds.”  — Andrea Dworkin (Modern Times
Interview of Andrea Dworkin With Larry Josephson, on “Modern Times”,
American Public Radio, 1992, as accessed on Sep. 5, 2010.)

I notice you and the others promoting this nonsense don’t quote her saying this:

“I
came here today because I don’t believe that rape is inevitable or
natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my
political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered
why we are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because
there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we
believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.” — Andrea Dworkin

The answer to your question is easy:

She
never said “All men are rapists” and neither did any other published
feminist such as Marilyn Frye or Catharine A. MacKinnon, which is why
you and others can’t cite the quote from any of their books. (Putting
quotes around the words with Dworkin’s name in the same sentence doesn’t
mean she said it.)

Now, if she actually said and wrote it,
wouldn’t you think you (or anyone else) would be able to tell us in
which book or article or speech it appears?

They never said “All sex is rape” either and the proof is linked to here and below:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinnon.asp

This is the truth:
John
Berger once called Dworkin “the most misrepresented writer in the
western world”. She has always been seen as the woman who said that all
men are rapists, and that all sex is rape. In fact, she said neither of
these things. Here’s what she told me in 1997: “If you believe that what
people call normal sex is an act of dominance, where a man desires a
woman so much that he will use force against her to express his desire,
if you believe that’s romantic, that’s the truth about sexual desire,
then if someone denounces force in sex it sounds like they’re denouncing
sex. If conquest is your mode of understanding sexuality, and the man
is supposed to be a predator, and then feminists come along and say, no,
sorry, that’s using force, that’s rape – a lot of male writers have
drawn the conclusion that I’m saying all sex is rape.” In other words,
it’s not that all sex involves force, but that all sex which does
involve force is rape. [Source for this paragraph is here and below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/apr/12/gender.highereducation]

For
more on why so many people describe Andrea Dworkin, a human rights
activist, as a man-hater or as someone who said the nonsense you are
spreading here, see this excellent article:

http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/jenson.html

As
for the other quote, you take it out of context. It’s not a statement
of fact. It’s an observation based on evidence which is part of a larger
discussion on the reality–a fact–that so many men hate and abuse women
in and out of bed (which is the serious social and global issue, not
what feminists think of men):

“But the hatred of women is a
source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears
to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a
sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power
without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the
f—ing. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men’s
contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself
in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se.
Any violation of a woman’s body can become sex for men; this is the
essential truth of pornography.” — Andrea Dworkin [Source is here and
below: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/IntercourseII.html]

I hope the readers here appreciate the difference in meaning. It’s quite significant.

 Sources for the above:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinnon.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/apr/12/gender.highereducation

http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/jenson.html

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/dworkintribute.htm

http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/IntercourseII.html

2012-10-26 00:30:06

Source: http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2012/10/and-one-more-time-andrea-dworkin-never.html