#Andrea dworkin

[lapdanseuse]

[mkantor]

My friend recently expressed interest in reading one of my “feminist books” so today I lent her my copy of Dworkin’s Right-Wing Women.

[honeyriot]

Andrea Dworkin- Letters From a War Zone

[haggishlyhagging]

The refusal, especially among liberals, to believe that pornography has any real relationship to sexual violence is astonishing. Liberals have always believed in the value and importance of education. But when it comes to pornography, we are asked to believe that nothing pornographic, whether written or visual, has an educative effect on anyone.

-Andrea Dworkin, Letters From a War Zone

[andreadworkinq]

“Any violation of a woman’s body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.”

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

[dhaaruni]

I have nothing else to say on the topic of pornography except this

[z0ruas]

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent — see, he’s jealous, he cares — a woman shows how much she cares by how much she’s willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure.

- Andrea Dworkin

[erebusvincent]

[qwqxjz]

[radfemagica]

Let me be clear. I am talking to you about prostitution per se, without more violence, without extra violence, without a woman being hit, without a woman being pushed. Prostitution in and of itself is an abuse of a woman's body. Those of us who say this are accused of being simple-minded. But prostitution is very simple. And if you are not simple-minded, you will never understand it. The more complex you manage to be, the further away from the reality you will be--the safer you will be, the happier you will be, the more fun you will have discussing the issue of prostitution.

Andrea Dworkin, ‘Prostitution and Male Supremacy’ (1993)

[radical-ramblings]

The word pornography, derived from the ancient Greek 'porne' and 'graphos', means “writing about whores.” Porne means “whore,” specifically and exclusively the lowest class of whore, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens.

The porne was the cheapest (in the literal sense), least regarded, least protected of all women, including slaves. She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. Graphos means “writing, etching, or drawing.”

The word pornography does not mean “writing about sex” or “depictions of the erotic” or “descriptions of sexual acts” or “depictions of nude bodies” or “sexual representations” or any other such euphemism. It means the graphic depiction of women as vile whores. In ancient Greece, not all prostitutes were considered vile: only the porneia.

Andrea Dworkin, "Pornography"

[majchic]

[but-how-do-you-drive]

"Read Dworkin" I found in a women's restroom at a music spot!!!!! (Plus free tampons 🫶🏻 and "female liberation now" 🙌🏻)

[radsplain]

Andrea Dworkin IS NOW IN REPRINT!!! Woman Hating, Pornography, and Right-Wing Women are available to purchase now!

[haggishlyhagging]

I live in a country where if you film any act of humiliation or torture, and if the victim is a woman, the film is both entertainment and it is protected speech. Now that tells me something about what it means to be a woman citizen in this country, and the meaning of being second class.

When your rape is entertainment, your worthlessness is absolute. You have reached the nadir of social worthlessness.

-Andrea Dworkin, Letters From a War Zone

[andreadworkinq]

Rape victims find courtrooms are dangerous places—so most avoid them. Nine of ten rapes go unreported. For those that go to trial, annihilating the victim—through insult, innuendo, intimidation, forced repetition of every detail, the pressure of continuing public humiliation before family, friends, coworkers—is still the rapist's best chance for acquittal; and acquittal is the usual outcome. Feminists call the trial “the second rape”.

Life And Death, Andrea Dworkin