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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...
Walk through the Harvard University Press Shop and you'll see a rape victim. Maybe. You'll have to search hard; look at the author photo on a copy of Catherine A. MacKinnon's Only Words, an anti-pornography text which argues that in the case of sex acts, "To say it is to do it and to do it is to say it," In other words, looking at pictures and reading about violent sex acts are tantamount to actually committing the crime of rape. And MacKinnon now believes she has been raped...
Enter Carlin Romano, book critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Writing for the leftist weekly The Nation, Romano started off his review of Only Words on a decidedly personal note, "Suppose I decided to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book." Not exactly objective journalism. But by writing about deeds he did not do, Romano is trying to expose the absurdity of MacKinnon's argument that words and pictures equal deeds...
...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...
...world ideal. Given human nature and the fact that people don't agree on what the ideal society should look like, making the world ideal would entail an unacceptable amount of coercion. It's true that liberty has its own costs and hazards, including risk, conflict, hostility, insecurity--even rape. But like the very first liberals, paglia and Mansfield both think the price of freedom is worth paying...