I Hated This Before It Was Cool
So yeah, Naomi Wolf. I know The Beauty Myth rocked a lot of people's worlds back in the day, but it never really rocked mine. It just kind of came off as a restatement of the very obvious that there were already better pieces on, and seemed a bit condescending and reductionist. I spent a few years feeling left out of the Naomi Wolf lovefest. And now, all I feel is right. And angry.
She kind of dropped off my radar for a while, and the next thing I heard from her was gushing about the wonderful, sexy liberation that comes from ultra-Orthodox religious modesty standards. *eyebrow raise* I see.
She really burst into the spotlight as Token Self-Proclaimed Feminist Expert Leftist when the Assange rape case broke. Bursting. Like some kind of rape-denying abscess.
Like her first oozings on the subject, where not having read anything about the charges doesn't dissuade her from having an opinion about them, and about the character of the accusers. And, of course, the sadly common inability to realize that even timing that is fortuitous to Wikileaks opponents (and really, when has any government given that much of a shit about rape before?) doesn't mean the charges are false.
Instead of realizing that's kind of a full-of-shit position to take, she instead decides to dig deeper. Like some sort of digging machine. And reveals that she's really, really unclear on what sexual consent is and how it works. Link. The title of that link is dead-on. There's a lot of money and fame to be had as someone who calls themself a feminist and works tirelessly to prop up and support rape culture. Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia have been at it for decades now, but there's always money for someone who'll say what some people really wanna hear.
Her latest, though, is a new low, even for her. Breaking through the bottom of the barrel, she claims that Assange's accusers need to be named publicly, because shut up, it's totally feminist. Um, no. Really, no.
I suppose there was a lot more money to be made as a neocon in liberal clothing than in restating what better thinkers already have, but seriously.
She kind of dropped off my radar for a while, and the next thing I heard from her was gushing about the wonderful, sexy liberation that comes from ultra-Orthodox religious modesty standards. *eyebrow raise* I see.
She really burst into the spotlight as Token Self-Proclaimed Feminist Expert Leftist when the Assange rape case broke. Bursting. Like some kind of rape-denying abscess.
Like her first oozings on the subject, where not having read anything about the charges doesn't dissuade her from having an opinion about them, and about the character of the accusers. And, of course, the sadly common inability to realize that even timing that is fortuitous to Wikileaks opponents (and really, when has any government given that much of a shit about rape before?) doesn't mean the charges are false.
Instead of realizing that's kind of a full-of-shit position to take, she instead decides to dig deeper. Like some sort of digging machine. And reveals that she's really, really unclear on what sexual consent is and how it works. Link. The title of that link is dead-on. There's a lot of money and fame to be had as someone who calls themself a feminist and works tirelessly to prop up and support rape culture. Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia have been at it for decades now, but there's always money for someone who'll say what some people really wanna hear.
Her latest, though, is a new low, even for her. Breaking through the bottom of the barrel, she claims that Assange's accusers need to be named publicly, because shut up, it's totally feminist. Um, no. Really, no.
I suppose there was a lot more money to be made as a neocon in liberal clothing than in restating what better thinkers already have, but seriously.