I should mention that by “my favorite” I mean “the most obscenely ridiculous.”
My favorite part is here:
R.T.: I was surprised that so much of your book was about Gloria Feldt, Ellie Smeal, Catharine MacKinnon. Only at the very end do you mention someone like Rebecca Walker.
K.O’B.: Are you asking about [why I didn’t discuss] twenty- or thirty-something feminism?
R.T.: Yes. The MacKinnon quote about how “all heterosexual intercourse is rape” is old news. There has been a whole other wave of sex-positive feminism in part in response to ideas like that. …
Because, you know, the “quote” that is “old news” does not exist.
Not that that’s ever stopped anyone from throwing MacKinnon to the wolves in order to unsuccessfully insulate their own hip sexyclub from antifeminist criticism, of course.
This…
R.T.: But social expectations make that —
K.O’B.: Society will never, ever, ever, ever validate it. Ever. Ever. So, next question. [Because] now we’re baying at the moon: Damn, life’s unfair! Damn! Life’s unfair!
… comes in as a close second. I think it’s the third and the fifth “evers” that really make the quote.
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