fucking andrea dworkin - JIM GOAD

1 Fu c ki n gan d readworkinby ad am parfrey50 ANSWER Me!You ve seen the section in bookstores Women s Studies, a jumble of lesbianpropaganda disguised as clinical researchinto straight sex lives; the blessed-be s andhair y-legged tracts of so-called whitewitches ; cunt coloring books; coy celebrationsof menstruation and other uterine mysteries;spurious archaeology fabricating a golden,peaceful age of matriarchy; and, mostentertainingly, violent screeds calling formale gendercide. Ver y few males blunderinto this pedagogy of the oppressed, andfewer still actually ingest the suffocatinglyrighteous that they re invited to. Women s Studiesare by women for women, a gender-exclusiveclub appropriating the wardrobe of third-worldrhetoric.

2 This is the language of the victim, ascreeching vocabular y of complaint and revoltagainst the despotic tyranny of men. Maledespots are not welcome to enter into dialoguewith the Women s Studies club unless theycheck their testosterone at the door, guiltilyaccept the bad guy rap, and cluck theirtongues against the miscreants of their owngender who stubbornly deny female moralsuperiority. These de-juiced specimens can beviewed to best advantage in college towns,their concave chests cuddling the bastard off-spring of Birkenstock-shod mates who arebusy passing out petitions for the removal ofPenthouse from convenience my own college days, misspentin a feminist stronghold ninety miles southof San Francisco, I obser ved backslidingimpulses among even the staunchest sisters, a yearning, one might even say craving,for men who weren t (I often heard them usethis word) wimps.

3 Gloria Steinem would goashen at the sight of this river of liberal-artscooze virtually throwing themselves at maleswho hadn t succumbed to the program andwere thus capable of ardor in their fucking ,men who were (by feminist definition) fact, the weak-willed males, hang-doglooking with scraggly beards and wire-rimmedglasses, so sympathetic to the feministstruggle, received the major share of femalecontempt. They were tolerated as toadies andtaken to bed as cut-rate dozen years have passed since thosedisheartening days spent under the specter ofstentorian vaginas and pipsqueak then, there seems to have been agradual return to male and female archetypes,to scenarios of myster y and the former feminists, the more attractiveof them got down to the business of findingand keeping a mate, while, in most cases, theless attractive grew more sophisticated andmilitant in their man-hatred.

4 Do not presume,amidst these generalities, the disappearance ofvictimized rhetoric from the lip-glossedmouths of erstwhile suffragettes. That wouldbe asking too much. A feminist litany remainsever at hand to badger and browbeat husbandsand boyfriends into sheepish admission ofegregious browbeaters are what I term theIntegrationist Feminists, those who like theircock on call. The Segregationist Feminists areharridans who don t like cock at andrea dworkin may be theuncrowned queen of Segregationist Feminismin its present incarnation. Her book Intercoursehas become the touchstone of contemporar yfeminist theor y. Part literar y criticism, partpropaganda, and all elegant hysteria,Intercourse was written to further a simpleprogram: to intellectually convince women toavoid the admittance of the male generativeorgan into connective friction with the that s not all, fellas.

5 Don t touch, but forGod s sake, don t look, either. Pornography, dworkin s earlier tract, advanced her convic-tion that hardcore pornography and softcoremen s magazines together fuel homicidalviolence against women. And for all herleftist cater wauling, dworkin s authoring ofanti-pornography legislation with comradeCatharine MacKinnon has earned her ovationson the dais with the likes of Edwin Meeseand Phyllis t make the mistake of confusingDworkin s underdog vocabular y with empathyfor anyone but her own kind. In Intercourse, dworkin bases her equation of racism withheterosexual sex on the work of JamesBaldwin, a black homosexual. (The phallicbraggarts of the Black Panther school shemust, of course, pass by without so much as aword.)

6 This is the same dworkin who spellsAmerica with a K throughout her books,masking her own tyrannical will to prohibitother peoples happiness with the argot of theoppressed. She descends to calling vital males National Socialists and the women who lovethem collaborators. That collaboration, she rants in Intercourse, fully manifestedwhen a woman values her lover, the NationalSocialist, above any woman, anyone of her ownkind or class or status, may have simplebeginnings: the first act of complicity thatdestroys self-respect, the capacity for self-determination and freedom readying thebody for the fuck instead of for freedom. In other words, dworkin denies the bond ofthe male-female relationship, taunting womenas Nazi collaborators who value theirboyfriend or husband above any woman.

7 What dworkin wants is an inversion ofloyalty, for women to run to the call of Sapphoand Sisterhood and to tar and feather theirmale is clear that the abolition of pornographywill not suffice as the end goal of s program. What will it take to calmAndrea dworkin , to quell her tirades, to fill theyawning chasm of her sense of injustice?Men, flop your tube steaks on the choppingblocks. dworkin wants your cocks for , dilates dworkin , annihilates thewoman, over whelming her with a sense ofARRIBA!SENORADWORKINESMUYGORDO! ISSUE 4 RAPE51possession that ultimately leads to degradationand death. (That is, she allows, when the sexis good.) That loss of self, writes Dworkinin the chapter entitled Possession, is aphysical reality, not just a psychic vampirism;and as a physical reality it is chilling andextreme, a literal erosion of the body sintegrity and its ability to function andsur sexual possession is a sensualstate of being that borders on anti-being untilit ends in death.

8 The body dies, or the loverdiscards the body when it is used up, throwsaway an old, useless thing, emptied, like anempty bottle. The body is used up; and the willis raped. Intercourse invokes the propaganda tech-nique popularized by Julius Streicher. Theenemy is portrayed as a vampire that isat once morally subhuman and yetpreternaturally powerful and s full-tilt fictions are not some privateexorcism of grief and rage, but rather abellows to fan the flames of righteous hysteriain order to seize, ban, burn, and she plays the role of violated victim, dworkin is given license to practice whatshe assails in the penised people, that is,the unleashing of sadistic vengeance on anentire gender and sexual that dworkin contributed to theMeese Commission s inquest on pornographyand helped Catharine MacKinnon to enactCanada s Tariff Code 9956.

9 To ban theimportation and sale of all materials whichdepict or describe sexual acts that appear todegrade or This incrediblybroad and subjective code could be interpretedin such a way as to proscribe most bookspublished, including the Bible and dworkin sown screeds. (A Canadian customs agent onceseized a shipment of one of dworkin s booksfor several hours but then quickly releasedthem, apologizing for the mistake. ) Inpractice, Tariff Code 9956 anally penetratespublishers too penurious to initiate costlylawsuits to fight government seizures, as wellas pro-sex lesbian bookshops that make aliving selling the now-banned works of PatCalifa and Susie to the blurbs of praise that fillIntercourse s book jacket.

10 dworkin analyzesthe institution [!] of sexual intercourse, andhow that institution, as defined and controlledby patriarchy, has proven to be a devastatingenslavement of women (Robin Morgan); dworkin s prose is elegant, her passion fortruth profound, her longing for justice bothlyrical and unrelenting, her use of histor y andliterature stunning, her understanding ofracism, antisemitism, and misogyny lucid,palpable (Phyllis Chesler); The book isoutstanding, original, and an act of forbiddenrebellion (Shere Hite).Shere Hite, perpetrator of The Hite Reporton male and female sexuality, is described byDworkin in Intercourse as the strongest femi-nist and most honorable philosopher amongsex dworkin is, of course,grateful for Hite s statistics which claim thatonly three women in ten attain orgasm duringintercourse.