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In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson – Evergreen Review

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From Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her. You heard Lorena Bobbitt, after John Wayne Bobbitt had been acquitted of marital rape. At her own trial for malicious wounding, she described beatings, anal rape, humiliation. She had been persistently injured, hit, choked by a husband who liked hurting her. John Wayne Bobbitt, after a brief tour as a misogynist-media star, beat up a new woman friend. It is always the same. It happens to women as different as Nicole Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt—and me. The perpetrators are men as different as O.J. Simpson, John Wayne Bobbitt, and the former flower-child I am still too afraid to name. There is terror, yes, and physical pain. There is desperation and despair. One blames oneself, forgives him. One judge

In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson – Evergreen Review --> In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson Andrea Dworkin From Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin , edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder I. BEFORE THE TRIAL It’s the Perpetrator; Stupid You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her. You heard Lorena Bobbitt, after John Wayne Bobbitt had been acquitted of marital rape. At her own trial for malicious wounding, she described

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