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Article: MAKING OF A MAN HATER; Still convinced all men are rapists and sex equals repression, feminist Andrea Dworkin died this week. But did she loathe men because she wished she'd been born one?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2005
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
ANDREA DWORKIN did nothing to convert anyone remotely suspicious of feminism. With her huge frame forever clad in shapeless dungarees, she wore the opposition down with her sweeping statements that women are sexual slaves who do not enjoy intercourse and that men are essentially rapists.
The American writer, who has just died at the age of 58, certainly did not believe in the charm offensive. Her shocking pronouncements included: 'In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.' She also said: 'I really believe a woman has the right to execute a man who has raped her.'
It is hard to see how men could win ...