#metoo did not fail
Looking back eight years after #metoo after reading Andrea Dworkin's Right Wing Women
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If youβre a subscriber/regular reader, you might have noticed that I changed the description of this newsletter/blog so that itβs explicitly feminist. So lesbian + feminist, through literature. In honor of that, this is the first of two pieces inspired by lesbian-feminist Andrea Dworkinβs Right Wing Women.
The Abuse of Women
The accounts of rape, wife-beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and the other commonplaces of female experience that are excavated from the past or given by contemporary survivors should leave the heart seared, the mind in anguish, the conscious in upheaval. But they do not. No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity oβ¦