Word: mackinnons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Which begs the question; with all of the threats that MacKinnon has made and her belief that malignant speech is a crime, why hasn't she turned herself...
...feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written by a woman, something for Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon to ponder...