Tag: Andrea Dworkin

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Andrea Dworkin

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Methodological problems with the Koss study were soon uncovered and publicized, but to little effect. For one thing, it was not the “victims” themselves who described their experiences as rape or attempted rape (hence the title of Warshaw’s book: I Never Called It Rape). (more…)

Robert Jensen

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Robert Jensen is an archetypal Leftist academic: a feminist, an anti-capitalist, an anti-imperialist, and someone who belivies in institutional racism. He was denouncing “white privilege” well before doing so became fashionable, and his feminism is of the radical variety, at odd’s with today’s wishy-washy “girl boss” posturing. I read his book Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity as a teenager, and was impressed that unlike most conservative critics of porn, Prof. Jensen had actually done his homework. (more…)