Right-wing women
by Andrea Dworkin · first published 1983
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I wouldn't call it feminism, but the lingering effects of the sexual revolution, which was dominated heavily by male interest. (Read Dworkin's "Right Wing Women." TLDR version, the sexual revolution was heavily influenced by male desire to make women more sexually available: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010... (pp. 94-95)) Iliza Shlesinger…
on “‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’” ↗> I wouldn't call it feminism, but the lingering effects of the sexual revolution, which was dominated heavily by male interest. (Read Dworkin's "Right Wing Women." TLDR version, the sexual revolution was heavily influenced by male desire to make women more sexually available: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010.... (pp. 94-95)) Iliza Shlesinger…
on “‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’” ↗…amount of degradation and abuse in the real pornography industry is pretty good evidence that theory and practice aren’t syncing up. As a formerly sex-positive liberal man, reading Andrea Dworkin’s “Right Wing Women” was revelatory.
on “Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78” ↗…sex-positive feminism. It’s worth reading some of Dworkin’s work to get the other side of the story on sex work and pornography: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/andrea-dworkin-last-days-at-h.... Maybe start with “Right Wing Women” for a primer on how men hijacked the sexual revolution, before getting into the material that describes the brutality and dehumanization in the sex work industry. You don’t have to agree with her take,…
on “Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution” ↗Because the sexual revolution was driven by self serving liberal men. Read Dworkin’s “Right Wing Women.” https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010...
…#MeToo movement reaffirmed conservative truths: men cannot be trusted and society has a role to play helping women stave off unwanted and inappropriate advances. (Andrea Dworkin addresses this at length in Right Wing Women, though obviously long before #MeToo. In explaining why many women continue to support patriarchal systems, she notes that the sexual revolution stripped women of a lot of protections that those systems…
on “The two party system is killing our democracy” ↗That's a highly reductionist view of Dworkin's point. The sexual revolution was not merely about reducing the stigma on women for having sex outside of marriage. As Dworkin explains in Right Wing Women (p. 89): > The pop idea was that fucking was good, so good that the more there was of it, the better. The pop idea was that people should fuck whom they wanted: translated for the girls, this meant that…
on “‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’” ↗…informal social obligations within the subculture at the center of the sexual revolution, but that subculture had almost entirely collapsed as a coherent group and social force by the time Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women, and is a distant memory today. There's actually a not insignificant political movement centered around the fact that the increase in women's acceptable (including legally acceptable) choices in recent…
on “‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’” ↗