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Article: Andrea Dworkin on: feminism and ending suffering.(Excerpt)
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- off our backs
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- April 1, 2008
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... [The women's movement] is a movement against human suffering. There is no way to be a feminist and to forget that. If you are a feminist, and if you have forgotten that our purpose is to end the suffering of countless unnamed and invisible women from the crimes committed against them--and yes, we may also end the suffering of men who are committing the crimes, yes, we probably think we can--then your feminism is hollow and it doesn't matter, it doesn't count. This is a movement against suffering. So in between the lines when you hear people say that this is a movement for freedom, for justice, for equality--and all of that is entirely and deeply true--you must remember ...