"rape and PIV* are almost the same thing", Part II. Welcome to Bizarro World.

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42. I had to read a lot of Dworkin and MacKinnon to

deconstruct them in my third year paper in law school.

Dworkin was in all likelihood severely mentally ill. Her (atrocious in the technical sense) writing illuminated so many hallucinatory paranoid and borderline schizoid disorders that one soon lost track of the number of pathologies present.

MacKinnon is not crazy in the way Dworkin was. She's a self-righteous prig of the highest order who managed to do some good work on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace in spite of her self. Her prose is every bit as bad as Dworkin's in terms of its literary worth. In other words, as bad as Ayn Rand. I met one of her brothers, who was an attorney and real-estate developer here in the Twin Cities, a couple of times. His comment was "Yeah, Kitty's nuts, and a hypocrite to boot."