MacKinnon's students say her class was emotional

Here's a link to a wonderful article about Catherine MacKinnons's Sex Equality class at Harvard.

The student writes: "Legal discourse is theoretically and intentionally rational, but Sex Equality was an emotional class. Contrary to the need to suppress emotion, it was invited into the classroom to inform processes of reason and applications and evaluations of law and legal opinion. Does the current state of rape law make you angry? Well, it should; and that anger is an indication that the law in both the black letter and in its implementation should be modified. Do the horrifying realities of prostitution and legal decisions that blame the victims of these horrors and not the perpetrators of them make you sick? They should."

"And instead of throwing your hands up and joining the ranks of the complacent, consider instead what your unique position as a person with elite legal training could contribute to eradicating horrors, and to eradicating all of the other forms of discrimination we face in our daily lives."

The posts on Equal show how important MacKinnon has been to all of us; and anyone who quotes Virginia Woolf to law students is a pal of mine.