(no subject)

[buria_q]

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011531125012985362.html

why is naomi wolf always shady and warped about powerful men who commit sexual assaults? previously, she was defending julian assange and saying the sexual assaults were no big deal on democracy now. now  she is tying in Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a crtique about the rise of surveillance and the patriot act. way to not even touch upon how muslim communities and ordinary people are surveilled...she apparenly wants people to feel sorry for people who are public figures who abuse their power. DSK was "outed" bc the woman he assaulted reported it. why should he be be allowed to slink off and have "privacy" for his actions? am  i missing something here? she makes no bloody sense but she's already established, so no matter what she spouts, she'll find someplace to publish it.

Comments

[ithiliana]

I've never considered Wolf a feminist; I didn't actually read Beauty Myth because it seemed to blame women, and she seemed to be very much part of a group of women (Camille Paglia being even worse) who were all "those feminists are terrible, me, me, me I'm the GOOD feminist, like ME." Given that, I'm not surprise she's a rape apologist when she can defend powerful men.

I never thought of her as a real one either

[thejeopardymaze]

And I think they're guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.


-

I haven't read Al-Jazeera as much since their rush to applaud the US bombings of Libya, so I'm almost afraid to read this one.

Re: I never thought of her as a real one either

[buria_q]

btw, do you have any resources/articles on the politics of Al Jazeera re: US military involvement in Libya?

This guy has been a good chronicler about a lot of things

[thejeopardymaze]

http://zeroanthropology.net

http://zeroanthropology.net/2011/03/18/the-libyan-revolution-is-dead-notes-for-an-autopsy/

http://twitter.com/#!/1D4TW

[badgerbag]

She is so grotesque.

[amadi]

This woman gives me the twitches. I cannot possibly begin to think of her as a feminist when everything she's said publicly in the last what, eight months? Has been in the service of reifying rape culture and providing cover for perpetrators of sexual violence.