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Romano posits that theoretically, MacKinnon would disagree with his assertion of innocence on the grounds that since he described her rape in print, he is actually guilty of rape itself. Romano argues it is in this absurd perversion of logic and the law that Only Words breaks down, because the real breathing MacKinnon does not believe that she was raped be Romano simply because he wrote about...
...imagines describing the rape in the Nation, and then being arrested with fictional man who actually raped MacKinnon. He argues that since he simply wrote about the crime without committing it, he is not guilty like the a man who physically violated...
That was Roamno's first mistake; overestimating the firmness of MacKinnon's grasp on reality Romano believed that since there was no way she would actually accuse him of rape without his ever having physically touched MacKinnon, she would be forced to concede a flaw in her theory...
Unfortunately, MacKinnon had been reading too many of her own manuscripts and actually believed she had been raped. "Please disavow this rape of me" she asked a columnist. And concessions weren't exactly on MacKinnon's mind when she said in Time, "He wants me as a violated woman with her legs spread. He needed me there before he could address my work...
...MacKinnon's lover, the much maligned psychologist Jeffrey Masson wrote to Romano, "I am not threatening you... [but] I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...