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"Of course the date rape hysteria of some 20 years ago did not just happen by itself. It was built upon the foundations of the
porn wars of the ’80s and the resurgent wallowing victim, neo-puritan, sex-hating, fear-breeding, gender feminism with its laser sites targeted on pornography specifically and adults doing adult things in general. The two loudest and most destructive voices were those of
Andrea Dworkin and
Catharine MacKinnon – the true spiritual forebears of atheism+, FTB and Skepchick.
And of course, then as now, there was a resistance against the madness. Hoff Sommers spoke up first, but was soon followed by others similarly unwilling to succumb to the role of the fragile, weak willed, perpetual victim woman at the mercy of the amorphous, yet all powerful, patriarchy – such as
Katie Roiphe who voiced her disgust at the date rape victimology loud and clear in
The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus. Yes, they were branded gender traitors back then too, amongst other terms – they were
examples of nasty pushback,
as Michael Nugent puts it in regard to the current nonsense being peddled by the Watsonista jihadis…
“the more things change, the more they stay the same”.
There was somewhat of a grassroots uprising as well in the nascent public access internet – both pre- and post world wide web. The loudest and angriest of these proto-bloggers by a mile was the eternally wonderful
Misanthropic Bitch – and her shameless venom unleashed a horde of the like minded, equally loud and angry, but none anywhere near her class. But the bitch herself was predated by earlier, though lesser, efforts primarily on Usenet, but also on BBS systems and university FTP sites. One of these was
I Bleed For This? which operated from 1994-1996. It was a hit or miss affair, though mostly miss, but it did shoot out one piece of timeless vitriol that is now more pertinent than ever –
Fucking Andrea Dworkin."
"Fucking Andrea Dworkin" (2013)