But as she had not reported any of this, there was only her word to go on. She claimed, as evidence, that she suffered vaginal pain, bleeding, infection (which only be from the ‘rape’ because she otherwise not had sex for a very long time), had a bruise on her breast and “deep gashes” on her leg. Viner quotes British commentator Mimi Spencer as having written: “The only visibly hairy woman at the forefront of feminism today appears to be Andrea Dworkin, and she looks as though she neither waxes nor washes, nor flushes nor flosses, and thus doesn’t really count.” She didn’t count, it is implied, because of how she looked she only cared about rape because no man could fancy her.Īccording to Viner, Dworkin’s account of her rape was questioned by some journalists, who asked why Dworkin hadn’t reported the incident to the police, and how she could be so certain that she had been sexually assaulted if she was drugged at the time. “Millie Tant” is a feminist cartoon character in the British satirical magazine Viz. pushing and thrusting until she gives in.” Dworkin stated this more directly in discussing the nature of sexual intercourse: “Intercourse remains a means, or the means, of physiologically making a woman inferior: communicating to her, cell by cell, her own inferior status.

In effect, Dworkin is arguing that sex, for women, is always rape, and if they consent to it, they must have been manipulated. If she has been “seduced,” through the male advertising his status and behaving in a chivalrous manner, it is as much rape as if the woman was grabbed off the street and assaulted in a dark alleyway. For extreme feminists, sex isn’t really about sex either-but also “power.” Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), one the most influential and iconic feminist theorists, once claimed, with regard to heterosexual romance: “In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.” This implies, in effect, that all men who are interested in having sex, and thus procreating, or at least fornicating, should be viewed as “rapists.” Moreover, according to Dworkin, it seems that all inter-gender sexual intercourse inherently involves the rape of a female. We've all heard the feminist pronouncement, Rape isn’t about sex-it's about power.

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