this is my third go-around with this post, which keeps vanishing. I hate when that happens, and now I hate it double.
a few months back, I mentioned the idiotically nefarious activities of Naomi Wolf, who was once considered (wrongly, as it happens), a "leading left-wing feminist intellectual." she was and is one of those. Google her. she…
this is my third go-around with this post, which keeps vanishing. I hate when that happens, and now I hate it double.
a few months back, I mentioned the idiotically nefarious activities of Naomi Wolf, who was once considered (wrongly, as it happens), a "leading left-wing feminist intellectual." she was and is one of those. Google her. she has ZERO intellectual credibility and is, from my perspective, amazingly stupid. the story about her planning a seduction of Harold Bloom and then "fainting" when he took her seriously is enough, given the late Prof. Bloom's reputation. she also wrote a book that had to be pulped when it was found that her "research findings" were 100% WRONG.
she went completely nuts during Covid and remains nuts (she's a favorite Tucker Carlson"guest"), saying weird shit about the dangerous fecal matter of vaccinated people (like, I said, weird shit), and all manner of crazy things. she's all over YouTube, telling people to overthrow the government because the Declaration of Independence says to do so. I maintain that if she hadn't started out sort of good-looking (I went to HS with hundreds just like her), she wouldn't have gone anywhere.
now most of us know about Naomi Klein, who's an entirely different Naomi with a monosyllabic Jewish last name. she's done some pretty solid work over the last twenty-five years or so. not ALWAYS right, but who of us ever is?
in any event, it occurred to me that people were going to get them confused and there would be a lot of problems for Ms. Klein.
well, I was right. there's a major article in this weekend's NYT Magazine about the book Naomi Klein wrote about it. it's called "Doppelganger" and comes out a week from Tuesday. I've already ordered MY copy. I consider it, to re-use a phrase I've been using for a while now, self-recommending.
considering the two people involved, I'd assume it's maddening on the very BEST day. and "idiot" is also being very, very kind. this woman is beyond nuts. and, since my one or two nutty anti-vax friends consider her "heroic" and "wonderful" (they're ignorant of her complicated, disgraceful history and the stranger things she's been saying), she's pretty dangerous.
this is my third go-around with this post, which keeps vanishing. I hate when that happens, and now I hate it double.
a few months back, I mentioned the idiotically nefarious activities of Naomi Wolf, who was once considered (wrongly, as it happens), a "leading left-wing feminist intellectual." she was and is one of those. Google her. she has ZERO intellectual credibility and is, from my perspective, amazingly stupid. the story about her planning a seduction of Harold Bloom and then "fainting" when he took her seriously is enough, given the late Prof. Bloom's reputation. she also wrote a book that had to be pulped when it was found that her "research findings" were 100% WRONG.
she went completely nuts during Covid and remains nuts (she's a favorite Tucker Carlson"guest"), saying weird shit about the dangerous fecal matter of vaccinated people (like, I said, weird shit), and all manner of crazy things. she's all over YouTube, telling people to overthrow the government because the Declaration of Independence says to do so. I maintain that if she hadn't started out sort of good-looking (I went to HS with hundreds just like her), she wouldn't have gone anywhere.
now most of us know about Naomi Klein, who's an entirely different Naomi with a monosyllabic Jewish last name. she's done some pretty solid work over the last twenty-five years or so. not ALWAYS right, but who of us ever is?
in any event, it occurred to me that people were going to get them confused and there would be a lot of problems for Ms. Klein.
well, I was right. there's a major article in this weekend's NYT Magazine about the book Naomi Klein wrote about it. it's called "Doppelganger" and comes out a week from Tuesday. I've already ordered MY copy. I consider it, to re-use a phrase I've been using for a while now, self-recommending.
just saying...
I read the excerpt. It must be maddening to be confused with an idiot.
considering the two people involved, I'd assume it's maddening on the very BEST day. and "idiot" is also being very, very kind. this woman is beyond nuts. and, since my one or two nutty anti-vax friends consider her "heroic" and "wonderful" (they're ignorant of her complicated, disgraceful history and the stranger things she's been saying), she's pretty dangerous.