Dream
Last night I had a dream that I was debating Andrea Dworkin — in an atheistic club in the mission district of San Francisco. I made some glancing comment to Allen Ginsberg, and she started calling me an “indirect baby rapist,” because any support of Ginsberg was a support of NAMBLA, and thus baby rape.
I was doing my best to hold my own in the debate, but Dworkin kept spiraling away from the core issue to either attack me directly, or how my wording represented the “Misogynist Andrist Oligopoly.”
At the end of the debate Dworkin left first. I remained to be consoled by a small minority who had been swayed by my debate. When I got up to leave I realized that Dworkin had stolen my cane.
Next time I have a dream debate with a feminist “thought leader” please let it be Camille Paglia…
