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Article: Unheralded genius?(Notes & Comments: May 2005)(Andrea Dworkin)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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We were prepared to let the untimely death of the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin last month at fifty-eighty pass without comment. It is not that we subscribe to the admonition that de mortuis nil nisi bonum--we don't--but rather that we felt that the less said about Ms. Dworkin the better. We still feel that way, but when we saw the op-ed piece in The New York Times by Catharine A. MacKinnon, Ms. Dworkin's comrade-in-feminist-arms, we decided that a brief caveat lector was in order. Ms. MacKinnon divides her column about equally between praising her friend for her "genius," originality, eloquence, moral fearlessness, etc., and complaining that she was horribly ...