I found a few more quotes on www.brainyquote.com that are further illustrative of MacKinnon's views on men, women, and sex in general.

"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strog enough to give meaningful consent."

"Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true."

You're right. I looked myself, and didn't find any really well sourced quotes either.

Anyway, here's a pretty good essay on the woman.

http://www.mediacoalition.org/reports/mackinnon.html

Its fairly safe to assume that messages printed on underwear are meant to be ironic.

Irony, and the ability to recognize and comprehend it, are signs of intelligence.

..., at least according to Ms. Traister, is teens and young adults. You (and Ms. Traister) are simply assuming that pre-teens will buy it also. Regarding that: isn't it their parents' responsibility to determine what is and isn't appropriate for them to wear, and to shield them accordingly from the inappropriate stuff?

I would venture a guess that the people who are upset about a picture of a breastfeeding woman on the cover of a magazine are probably not real thrilled with Girls Gone Wild either. Likewise, I would guess that most of the men who watch and enjoy Girls Gone Wild videos probably wouldn't have a problem with a breastfeeding woman on the cover of Vanity Fair. What Neva Chonin has identified is not some kind of an American Schitzophrenia, but simply two competing world views. They call it the culture wars. Which side is Neva Chonin on?

As for her "real lesbians" comment: what is she really saying? That "real lesbians" are ugly?

FYI - I did not get a chance to read Chonin's piece (tried unsuccessfully to click onto it several times), so if I am getting her wrong at all, please speak up.

"Cragg said he expected to find evidence of the conversation on an audiotape of the interview, but the tape contained no such reference. 'Either I turned the recorder off, or later I sat down and I deleted it,' claimed Cragg, in an interview with Salon on Thursday."

Need we go any further than this? How is an accusation this poorly sourced even newsworthy?

Great article. This essay states just about everything that I have thought about the so-called "war on terror" ever since that horrible rhetorical mantra reared its ugly head. It also put words to a few things that I have thought but haven't yet articulated. There's nothing more pathetic than a 90 pound weakling throwing his measly weight around in a desperate attempt to impress the real tough guys, and that's exactly what the Democrats (with a few exceptions, Russell Feingold being the most notable) have been for the past 5 years.

I have been arguing against this war paradigm since the beginning. In the weeks after September 11th, everyone thought I was crazy for saying that the attack was a crime, and not an act of war (no army? no nation state? no sovreignty claims? no territorial ambitions?). They also thought that I was crazy for saying that Bush should have gotten an indictment against Bin Laden, preferably from the world court, before demanding his extradition and invading Afghanistan.

Taking war seriously entails recognizing that it is a heavy word, and not employing it lightly. I say lets end all metaphorical wars, from the War on Drugs, to the War on Obesity, to the horrendous, so called "War on Terror."

Halloween IS an equal opportunity holiday. You are allowed to dress up as whatever you want. Nobody's forcing anyone to dress up slutty, or otherwise. The women who dress up slutty on Halloween are doing it because they want to. Isn't that a good enough reason?

I believe this phenomenon of society looking down on hypersexual women is related to another, less dialogued but equally powerful, sociosexual phenomenon: the notion of men as hypersexual, and the expectation that they will pursue lots of partners. This phenomenon, and the pressure men may feel to conform to it, can make it an emasculating experience to have a girlfriend who has had more partners then you. Hence, the negative view of hypersexual women.

Abortion is different than other surgical procedures not because it has to do with sex, but because the consequences of the decision are not fleeting, but last for the whole lifetime of the woman. Nobody - not even a parent - has the right to force that kind of a decision on someone, or even to interfere in the decision making process. The consequences are too great. The ideal of parents being caring and supportive in this hour of need is irrelevant: rights are there to protect the exception, not enforce the mean.

Adolescents are hybrid creatures, containing elements both childlike and adult. We want to protect them because of their childishness. However, an unplanned pregnancy is not the time to do this. Unplanned pregnancies are occasions to look to the adult in the young woman, and not to treat her like a child.

The evil thing about the OJ Simpson case is that it brings out the self-indulgent desire for vengeance in everyone. It seems that anyone who has anything to say about it, publicly or otherwise, never says anything insightful or worthwile about it (Gerry Spence being the lone exception). Instead, the speaker always uses the discussion as an opportunity to express their own personal sense of indignation and injustice, regardless of how far removed they actually are from the facts. Its as if Nicole Brown has somehow morphed into everyone's sister, someone for whom we all deserve personal vengeance. Nobody seems to realize what a monumental act of ego-stroking this extrapolation is.

This article is no exception. It is ego-driven, self-indulgent, and petty.