Andrea Dworkin, RIP.
Andrea Dworkin died on friday. That is very sad to hear. When I was younger and trying to actually develop a more coherent liberal philosophy (a task that I failed at; being a computer programmer is not a career that encourages logical thought), I read several of her books and, well, I can't say I enjoyed them, but I found them to be very good at battering away at my prejudices and revealing the weak points.
She didn't really write books for men to read. But after I read them, puzzled over them, reread them, and puzzled over them some more I got quite a bit out of them. And from everything I read about her, she was much the same way in real life.
The world is much poorer for her passing. If there's an afterlife, I hope she acts as the same lightningbolt of outrage there as she was here.
(the sad news is from bitch, PhD)