Ten things meme.

[rivka]

Ten things I've done, which you probably haven't:

1. Dyed monkeys various colors, using Manic Panic hair dye.
2. Seen a Nobel Prize winner naked.
3. Interviewed Transylvanian villagers about their parenting practices.
4. Had ten major surgeries by age 20.
5. Eaten fire.
6. Been thrown out of the Oregon statehouse while brandishing a turkey baster.
7. Been required to supply regular blood samples as a condition of employment.
8. Driven around Nashville at 3am with someone I had just met, looking for someplace to buy condoms.[1]
9. Routinely had people committed to locked psychiatric wards.
10. Driven Mary Daly around in my car.


[1] One of the people on my Friends list has done this. But I bet the rest of you haven't.

Comments

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the C-Span person, but Andrea Dworkin said all penetration is rape. I don't know if Mary Daly said it too, but I doubt it.

Andrea Dworkin is a nutjob, to use the technical term. (Why isn't that in the DSM IV? Slackers.)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

(I really should remember to Google first.) I found a picture of Daly, and it was indeed she whom I saw talking about the inherent evil of all men. Grrr...essentialism in all its forms seriously annoys me.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I found her very likeable in person, actually.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I think what I saw was a discussion of why she was getting fired for excluding men from her classes, so I'm sure she was nicer in real non-controversial life.

Unless I'm confusing her with somebody else, in which case I apologize to all concerned. I'm still foggy from the Crud (and the concurrent Benadryl bender).

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I'm perfectly willing to believe she said something like that in an interview, but the explanation I consistently heard was not that men are evil or something, it's just that men change the type and level of discourse in classes, and Daly wanted to focus on specific subjects and modes of discourse in her seminars/classes.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Andrea Dworkin said all penetration is rape.

She didn't, actually, but is commonly misquoted (along with Catherine MacKinnon) as having said so.

Not that I think very highly of Dworkin or MacKinnon regardless.

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

Oops. Well, damn, I wish I knew where I got that so I could discount other information from the same source. Sigh.

What did she say that was misquoted in this way? Or was it an outright fabrication like the bra burning stories?