Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin was the child of a schoolteacher with a passion for social justice, so I suppose, it was to be expected that she would have a skewed view of the world, and that she would wish to teach us her loathing for ordinary people, the people she only ever knew as service providers. Looking at these scary active people, so  devoid of the narcissistic morality of the bureaucracy, she could but tar them with the crimes that rightly belong to the hypocritical hierarchy from which she came.
She had a Literature degree and it seems that she never had a proper job. Wanting to identify with the respectably downtrodden she sought victimhood.
Andrea was a crusader against pornography, correctly pointing out the connection between pornography and  hierarchy/patriarchy. Unfortunately, like all Vichy Feminists, she only  wanted to remove the symptom, not the disease, wanting, if anything to reinforce the Patriarchy through increased state violence.
Herself a slave of patriarchy, she seemed unable to distinguish between pornography, which relies on domination, and the tender eroticism that can only be enjoyed by those  who live autonomously outside the structures of power.
Sadly, damned from an early age by idealism, a member of the teaching and managerial class, it was inevitable that she would perceive existence as a struggle for domination, as dirt.
Here are some of Andrea's sayings;

'Sexism is the foundation on which all tyrrany is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male over female domination.'

'Intercourse, as an act, often expresses the power man has over woman.'

'Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that, mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.'

'Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.'

'Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For   a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.'

'Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they become its advocates.'

'Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it. In life, they commit it.'

'The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other.'

'Obscenity laws are also woman hating in their very construction. Their basic assumption is that it's women's bodies that are dirty.'

'Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women.'

'Since the paradigm for sex has been one of conquest, possession, and violation, I think men believe they need an unfair advantage, which at its extreme would be called rape. I do not think they need it.'

'The nature of woman's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power.'

'A man can be a hero if he is a scientist or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is 'sensitive', or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life
will make him a hero.'