VMSmith wrote:
that book was scary sh!&. it was speculative fiction but close enough to this reality to actually be possible. reading it freaked me out a little. its been a while since i read it so its a bit hazy in my mind but i liked it- it had everything: under ground revolutionary organisations, class divides, womens liberation struggles, etc. was she critical of those anti porn feminists who sided with conservatives? i thought she was anti porn... but its been a while so...
At the time (1985), Dworkin & Mackinnon were telling women who disagreed with them "Don't let those evil men tell you what to do - let US tell you what to do. And if you disagree with us- it's all in your head, you've been brainwashed by internal misogyny/patriarchy/our next buzzword". CF Ofglen suffering FGM to make her more malleable... Inculcating hatred of female sexuality... a tad misogynistic of the Aunts, perhaps?
Nancy friday wrote about the Dworkin/Mackinnon/Dobson tie-up in Women On Top - about how women would be "on the fast track with feet bound". Think how Charlotte Proudman and Gail Dines was sex-neg lyrical against sex-pos...
Kinda like the scene in National Lampoon's Animal House - "he can't do that to our pledges! Only WE can do that to our pledges".