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That may sound, at first, like a lot of hush money. Individual payments in the range of $50,000 to $300,000 will be parceled out to the 86 Geoghan victims on a sliding scale of severity: more for rape, less for a flash of nudity. Yet the cash doesn't go far. In 1992 David Gagnon, 37, quietly settled his suit for three years of sexual molestation by the Rev. Michael Doucette, one of two active Portland, Me., priests suspended March 9. After paying his legal bill, typically one-third of the total award, Gagnon netted $63,000. That...
...abuses leveled against women, Dworkin says she has endured nearly all of them: rape, prostitution, battery. Now 55, she has recently published her thirteenth book, a memoir that describes how she went from being jailed for protesting the Vietnam War to launching a crusade against pornography. It is the latter that earned Dworkin and her collaborator, legal scholar Catherine MacKinnon, the most infamy: The civil ordinances in which they defined pornography as an actionable violation of women’s civil rights passed in some cities but were subsequently shot down on First Amendment grounds...
...You’ve said on several occasions, including in your book, that you think rape victims should be allowed to execute their rapists. Is this rhetorical hyperbole or policy proposal...
...think rape, battery, pornography and prostitution. And in other countries, female genital mutilation and acid burning of women. In Pakistan, for example, when men want revenge on other men, they will rape the women who are seen to belong to other men. And they will cut off the noses of those women. So all of those kinds of disfigurement and humiliation and sadism, all of those things are the issues that we have to deal with in the coming decade. We just have to. Because if we don’t, women have nothing...
This vibrance is critical, for the play’s pertinent message could have been lost if the central concerns of rape, two-timing men, abortion and, most important, deliverance were presented in an exhaustive, ponderous manner...