Just out of curiosity, which of the following assertions and implications do you object to as “irrational”?

1. Men who claim to be antisexist should make a commitment to ending rape.
2. That is the only meaningful commitment to equality.
3. Men who claim to be antisexist should make a commitment to ending rape because that is the only meaningful commitment to equality.
4. It is astonishing that in all our worlds of feminism and antisexism we never talk seriously about ending rape. Ending it. Stopping it. No more. No more rape.
5. Perhaps in the back of our minds, we are holding on to its inevitability as the last preserve of the biological.
6. Perhaps we think that it is always going to exist no matter what we do.
7. All of our political actions are lies if we don’t make a commitment to ending the practice of rape.
8. This commitment has to be political.
9. It has to be serious.
10. It has to be systematic.
11. It has to be public.
12. It can’t be self-indulgent.

And, whichever of these you pick, what specific reason do you have for regarding it as irrational?

calamariachi: “I say Bah! to any article that quotes Andrea Dworkin as a source!”

For context, here’s the quote that I pulled from Dworkin’s speech, I Want A Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”: “I want to see this men’s movement make a commitment to ending rape because that is the only meaningful commitment to equality. It is astonishing that in all our worlds of feminism and antisexism we never talk seriously about ending rape. Ending it. Stopping it. No more. No more rape. In the back of our minds, are we holding on to its inevitability as the last preserve of the biological? Do we think that it is always going to exist no matter what we do? All of our political actions are lies if we don’t make a commitment to ending the practice of rape. This commitment has to be political. It has to be serious. It has to be systematic. It has to be public. It can’t be self-indulgent.”

Do you think that anything in the passage quoted is false or wrong? (If so, what?) Or do you just dislike the author?