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I've started reading Dworkin for the first time and oh my god
Posted August 14, 2021 by [Deleted] in FeministBooks

I'm reading a collection of her writings and I can't put it down. My highlighter is running dry because there's something on every page I want to come back to again and again and again. She's laying everything so bare and plain and true that I feel like screaming in rage and vindication. I'm not a spiritual person but if such a thing as a soul exists, she's set mine on fire. I cannot imagine how deeply her writing would affect a woman from the 70s, who wouldn't even have the language to articulate her own oppression.

This woman was a visionary. I want to live in the world she wanted. It is a foul, horrific injustice that she's been disavowed, mocked, caricatured, and buried by third wave feminists for the sake of appeasing men. I wish I could've met her just to thank her.

My favorite quote so far: "Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."

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