Susie Bright, of all people, checks in with a brilliant eulogy of Andrea Dworkin:
I could feel the great loss in the messages I read this morning, from the old guard of feminist activists. Her death is going to be a horrible reminder to many that women’s place in society today is a cruel rebuttal to many of our dreams of women’s liberation. The media image of women today is pathetic; it’s Barbie on Steroids. “I Am Bimbo, Hear Me Roar! Tee-hee!”
My only encounter with Dworkin was a debate at Annenberg where I thought she was truly decimated by Larry Gross. I was actually a bit disappointed that the battle wasn’t more even; there’s certainly a rational anti-pornography argument to be made, but that didn’t seem to be her plan that night. It’s taken this long, and Susie Bright, for me to finally hear a positive and comprehensible explanation of what Dworkin was talking about.