Anne- not weird at all, your response really got me thinking in a new way. I knew MacKinnon was influential, this website really helped me see the breadth of her work: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mackinnon.html

It's been a very difficult thing for me to come to terms with my aunt's abuse, because I do consider myself a feminist. And as much as feminism has done to forward our understanding of sexual abuse, I think it has also strengthened the myth that women aren't perpitrators. It's hard to find much of anything out there about women who sexually abuse children, and it can leave one feeling very isolated.
I think, in my aunt's case, traditional gender norms,a chilhood seeped in rural poverty and teachings of the conservative Lutheran church combined with her own pathology in some very twisted ways. Because she had no healthy outlets, she turned on young children