![]() (Let me point out that I've written about vaginas here before. Her contorted comments against Julian Assange's accusers have put her in the same discreditable category as Whoopi Goldberg's comment that Roman Polanski's night of isolating, drugging, and penetrating a 13-year-old girl against her will wasn't "rape rape." And now she's written a book that's gotten her vagina its own Twitter account, which, sadly, seems to have stopped after only 12 tweets. And can we take for granted that Naomi Wolf's "feminism," while it once may have had some political content, has now morphed entirely into narcissism, in which she mistakes her own emotions for meaningful thought? The Beauty Myth, the book that's the foundation of her outsize reputation, rehashed things that had been written and said before by second-wave feminists and many of us who went to various workshops and classes back in the day. Every review I've seen has essentially the same gripes with the book. Let's start by assuming that you've already got the basic outline and flaws of the book from Jaclyn Friedman's review here. In fact, as far as I can tell, the entire public purpose of Naomi Wolf, at this point in her brilliant career, is to be the target of other folks' smart sentences. And let me tell you, am I ever grateful for those reviews, which tell me I never want to put my hands on it. Everything I know about it comes from what other people have told me. ![]() I don't have any firsthand experience with Naomi Wolf's Vagina, carnal or otherwise.
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