— Joanne Jacobs, bless her heart, has a very good book review in today’s Mercury News: Rage, not logic, fuels Dworkin’s feminism
Andrea Dworkin would hate me. I’m not perpetually enraged at those child-raping, porn-peddling, woman-beating brutes (men), nor am I one of the childlike victims (women) looking to Dworkin for salvation. That leaves one category: traitor.
Probably the most significant part of the review, in the local context is this: “Rita Simon uses crime statistics to show that men — not women — are the most frequent victims of male violence,” because it undercuts a message the Mercury News has sent relentlessly for the last decade. Good piece of work, and on Mothers’ Day no less.