# Is Andrea Dworkin Butt-Ugly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283 "2000-08-22T08:01:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/1 "2000-08-22T08:01:47Z")
- - - I ran across a site critical of her, and it says pretty much so. It uses an illustration at one point: " , , -as two camps of women, one doomed to be considered as sex objects and the other doomed not to be. Ms. Dworkin could easily be the righteous born leader of the latter." -I can’t seem to find any pics online. - MC ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/2 "2000-08-22T08:04:51Z")
NOBODY will ever confuse Andrea Dworkin for a sex object. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/3 "2000-08-22T08:29:15Z")
I don’t think you’d want to find any pics of Andrea Dworkin online. Yecch. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/4 "2000-08-22T12:29:02Z")
My butt is much, much better looking than Andrea Dworkin. Besides that, she’s _weird_. She seems to think that _sex_ and _murder_ are melded together in men’s minds. Well, sex and suicide maybe, if she was the only choice of someone to have sex with. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/5 "2000-08-22T14:55:56Z")
Andrea Dworkin’s writing makes her “ugly” no matter **what** she looks like in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/6 "2000-08-22T15:58:26Z")
I don’t think it’s nice to talk trash about someone’s appearance in public…especially if it’s someone I don’t even know personally. It’s superficial and mean. However, there is a small photo of Ms. Dworkin [here](http://www.igc.org/Womensnet/dworkin/AutobiographyI.html), along with her autobiography, which explains some of her UTTERLY INSANE, disconnected-from-reality ideas.\* Judge for yourselves. \*I never ruled out talking trash about someone’s non-physical attributes. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/7 "2000-08-22T16:17:25Z")
Andrea Dworkin lives in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. We patronize the same bookshops, and I see her waddling down Seventh Avenue fairly often. She wears overalls a lot. As her philosophy includes the premise that heterosexual activity equates with violence against women, one would HOPE that she doesn’t go out of her way to make herself sexually enticing to men. Only knowing her through her writing, I agree that she’s a jerk, but I also agree that’s it’s not nice to pick on a lady’s level of attractiveness. How come there isn’t a thread about that ugly fucker Buckminster Fuller, or that geeky Noam Chomsky? ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/8 "2000-08-22T17:42:32Z")
Hmm. I checked out **Five’s** link. I didn’t have time to read Ms. Dworkin’s entire diatribe, but I wouldn’t say that she’s “butt” ugly, based on the picture there. She isn’t really attractive though. Combine that with her misanthropic personality and I definitely wouldn’t want to be within 50 feet of her. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/9 "2000-08-22T23:57:27Z")
I agree, it’s not nice to pick on people for their looks (Lord knows I ain’t teen ido material), but ANdrea Dworkin makes it so tempting! When she’s ranting and raving that 1. Rape is an act of anger against women, and… 2. All heterosexual intercourse amounts to rape… All I can say is, Andrea, honey… I can’t imagine ANY man EVER hating women enough to have sex with you! ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/10 "2000-08-23T01:16:35Z")
At first I thought the question was “Is Andrea Dworkin’s butt ugly?” I am perfectly comfortable admitting that I do NOT want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/11 "2000-08-23T13:15:49Z")
She’s just cranky because she doesn’t have a boyfriend. \ ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/12 "2000-08-23T13:17:51Z")
How did the letter j become a smiley? I swear it was unintentional… all I did was this \ **Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/13 "2000-08-23T15:01:03Z") **Wonko The Sane** : > [@](#): > > She’s just cranky because she doesn’t have a boyfriend. Actually, **Wonko** , unless there’s been a recent breakup I haven’t heard about, she does have a boyfriend, and they’ve been together over twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/14 "2000-08-23T15:12:53Z")
- - - Twenty years and still not married? Well, there it is. - MC ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/15 "2000-08-23T15:45:32Z")
Yeah, I’ve seen photos of her with the boyfriend (I thought he was the husband, but you’re probably right). He’s a scrawny sawed-off chinless guy with one of those little blond almost-moustaches. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, right? \ Speaking of “sauce”…Wonder if Andrea considers cunnilingus an act of heterosexual intercourse, and therefore of rage against women… Just a little image to leave everyone with, before lunch! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/16 "2000-08-23T15:46:14Z")
I think that she is the rare lesbian type, you just don’t find very often. She works for the government still, I think. ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/17 "2000-08-24T15:46:24Z")
Terrible to say but, she makes butt-ugly look good. Whats worse though, is that she comes across as a lunatic. I saw her interviewed once and it was quite scary. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/18 "2000-08-24T16:19:23Z")
Ukulele Ike described Andrea Dworkin’s boyfriend thusly: > [@](#): > > He’s a scrawny sawed-off chinless guy with one of those little blond almost-moustaches. “Sawed-off”? What, is he an illegal shotgun or something? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/19 "2000-08-24T16:55:40Z")
“Sawed-off” = colorful slang term for “short.” ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283/20 "2000-08-24T17:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > Andrea Dworkin lives in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. We patronize the same bookshops, and **I see her waddling** down Seventh Avenue fairly often. > > Only knowing her through her writing, I agree that she’s a jerk, but I also agree that’s it’s **not nice to pick on a lady’s level of attractiveness**. Hmmmmmm. Interesting couple of statements you made there. Wanna rethink that? If someone said that I was waddling, I certainly would think they were picking on my level of attractiveness. But if we’re talking about her, as a person, being ugly, then based on what I’ve heard so far, she sounds like an angry and bitter person. That is a very ugly character trait. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-andrea-dworkin-butt-ugly/30283.md?page=2)