Guardian Unlimited | Doubts about Dworkin
“This, possibly, explains the deafening silence – from the media, at least – which has followed Dworkin’s latest autobiographical fragment: the account of her recent rape published in the New Statesman and in these pages last week. From fellow readers, I’ve heard about as wide a range of reactions you could get, from horror to bafflement, from pity to frank disbelief. For those who did not see the piece: Dworkin alleges that, last year, at the age of 52, she was drugged and raped in a hotel room by two men, whom she believes – no, knows – to have been the hotel’s bartender and a serving boy. “