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...Romano posits that theoretically, MacKinnon would disagree with his assertion of innocence on the grounds that since he described her rape in print, he is actually guilty of rape itself. Romano argues it is in this absurd perversion of logic and the law that Only Words breaks down, because the real breathing MacKinnon does not believe that she was raped be Romano simply because he wrote about...
Enter Carlin Romano, book critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Writing for the leftist weekly The Nation, Romano started off his review of Only Words on a decidedly personal note, "Suppose I decided to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book." Not exactly objective journalism. But by writing about deeds he did not do, Romano is trying to expose the absurdity of MacKinnon's argument that words and pictures equal deeds...
That was Roamno's first mistake; overestimating the firmness of MacKinnon's grasp on reality Romano believed that since there was no way she would actually accuse him of rape without his ever having physically touched MacKinnon, she would be forced to concede a flaw in her theory...
...said in The Washington Post, "Carlin Romano should be accountable for what he did. There are a lot of people out there, and a lot of ways it can be done." Making threats against another human being is not attractive behavior for someone who thinks that Miss February is an evil worthy of censorship...
...People claim I dehumanized her," Romano complains. "In fact, I did worse -- I took her seriously. The worst thing that can happen to a flamboyant claim is to be tested." To put it another way, MacKinnon's contention that depictions of sex can be equivalent to sexual assaults may come as news to women who have suffered the atrocity of an actual rape. When Romano charges that what he sees as her representation-equals-reality thesis threatens to trivialize what such women have endured, MacKinnon replies that Romano is merely pointing to their suffering as a diversion from...