"Pornography: An Exchange", response by Ronald Dworkin to Catherine Mackinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.
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"She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality."

— "Pornography: An Exchange"

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality."" in the context of ""Pornography: An Exchange", response by Ronald Dworkin to Catherine Mackinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Catharine A. MacKinnon

About Catharine A. MacKinnon

Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American radical feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist.