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[–]SameOldBS 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm ashamed to say I used to rate Solnit. Now she can fuck the fuck off to the same place Naomi Wolf crawled out from.

[–]suzyquattrosshoes 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Oh what happened with Naomi Wolf? I only read her Beauty Myth.

[–]MarkTwainiac 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Did you read the BM in its original version - where she said right at the start that 150,000 girls/women die of anorexia each year? At the time, it prompted howls cuz the real number was more like 50-60 per annum. The error was corrected in later versions.

Her most recent book had to be pulled off the market because it was based entirely on a mistaken premise that she got from totally misreading & historical court documents and not checking the definition of the terms used in them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50153743

Recently, she's gone full TRA, saying on Twitter that TWAW and the most oppressed; TERFs are evil; The Beauty Myth "wasn't just for uteri havers" and her book "Vagina" wasn't just for people with female vaginas - it was for the menz too.

[–]suzyquattrosshoes 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gobsmacked.

I read the BM in the early 90s, haven’t since. I think probably it was the original! I remember thinking (about the book overall), “superficial, we all know this (much of it), but good to have out there”.

Vagina for men... wow. No integrity at all. Unless she’s terrified which is possible.