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Romano insists his opening paragraphs were simply a gambit to make plain the distinction between representations of an act and the act itself. As his review continues, he decides against the rape -- "People simply won't understand" -- but goes on to posit an imaginary reviewer, named Dworkin Hentoff, who likewise decides to rape MacKinnon, with the difference that he follows through. Both Romano and Hentoff are arrested for rape. But wait, Romano protests in his cell, I didn't do it. I just imagined it. Isn't there a difference...
...doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing a column angrily doing just that. "Rape also means plundering or pillaging," he wrote. "Or using brutishness to humiliate someone...
...Stanford, the cradle of the expression "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture's got to go," interest in the debate seems to have peaked, even among the activists. Andrew J. Dworkin, news editor at The Stanford Daily, says that the newest ethnic club on campus is an Irish-American society and that most people remain unsure whether organizers are joking...
Stanford, Dworkin says, is "one of the more responsive universities," and suggests two reasons for the gradual erosion of identity politics: "It may be hard to sustain interest in an issue for a long time. It may be that the demands have been...
Even more irresponsible and annoying is Jong's treatment of the "feminist," a term she almost always follows with "zealot" and applies without distinction to such diverse thinkers as Kate Millett, Germaine Greet and Andrea Dworkin. Jong says that she "respect[s] the courage of those feminists who have come forward to illuminate the nature of pornography against women," but she shows no consciousness of the evolving nature of that illumination and makes no effort to convey the complexity of the American feminist debate on pornography. Complicated theoretical issues are dismissed with reductive summaries: "The pen, as so many feminist...