Reactionaries like Suffolk County legislator Michael D’Andre in New York eagerly sponsored versions of the bill.
MacKinnon and Dworkin developed their ordinance in 1983, in the middle of a Reagan administration offensive against sexually explicit material. “ She believes that “to be about to be raped is to be gender female … going about life as usual” Feminists who disagree with her are like “house niggers who sided with the masters.” Says MacKinnon, “The mainspring of sex inequality is misogyny, and the mainspring of misogyny is sexual sadism. It defined pornography super-broadly and included no language that would prevent the law’s use against the usual targets of censorship: lesbians and gays, artists, sex educators, etc.Īnd their underlying philosophy is rabid and ridiculous. But their promising approach was crucially flawed. MacKinnon first received wide attention as the co-author, with Andrea Dworkin, of trail-blazing legislation that attacked porn as sex discrimination. Her insistence that women are pathetic victims who must be rescued from porn-driven men by the capitalist state makes her one of our most dangerous misleaders - the Louis Farrakhan of the women’s movement. Catharine MacKinnon, known internationally as a radical feminist and superstar lawyer against pornography, is in fact a traitor to feminism and a pitbull for the U.S.
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