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Naomi Wolf Annoys Me Again
Oh, Naomi. We are gonna just keep doing this, aren’t we? Ah, well, why not? After all, every superhero needs a supervillain in order to really thrive. I’m not sure, in this situation, which one is which, but we’re surely diametrically opposed, and I know I’m super, so we may as well get some cool…
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Is It Ok to Be Gleeful When My Enemies Are Attacked?
Does this make me a bad person? I’m really enjoying reading bad reviews of Naomi Wolf’s new book Vagina: A Biography. I’m gleefully clapping my hands together like a little kid at a birthday party as the piñata nears the point of collapse. Maybe because in these reviews I can smell the gathering tide of…
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DEAR ANTI-PORN ACTIVISTS — Chew on this.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the reasoning and ideology behind anti-porn talking heads (Gail Dines, Naomi Wolf, Shelley Lubben), “activists” (AHF), and legislation (Cal-OSHA). Though I have many arguments against most of this ideology on small levels about the wrong-headedness of shame surrounding sex and porn, etc, it occurs to me that there’s a…
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Why Anti-Porn Ideology is Totally Wrong-Headed
Sighh…. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole Naomi Wolf anti-porn line of reasoning, and though I have many arguments against it on small levels, it suddenly occurred to me yesterday that there’s a much bigger and glaringly obvious fault with anti-porn ideology. Especially the “feminist” kind. Namely that its major, though…
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Logical Fallacy #2 (Ok Maybe Not a Fallacy, but Still Bad Writing)
More on Naomi Wolf’s ridiculous “Is pornography driving men crazy?” article, which has now been reposted on HuffPo. Thank goodness, the commenters there are taking her to the cleaners for her myopic writing. I’d like to keep taking her there. Ahem: “Given the desensitisation effect on most male subjects, researchers found that they quickly required…
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Logical Fallacy #1
Ok, Naomi Wolf. Let’s discuss some of this theory you’re working with over on Al Jazeera. One thing at a time. There are so many issues I see in what you wrote about how porn may be “driving men crazy” that I’ll take it nice and slow. Ease into it, like a man eases into…
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Oooooooh This Makes Me Mad
A not-very-thought-provoking read on Al Jazeera (to their credit–in the Opinions section–by Naomi Wolf: “Is pornography driving men crazy?” An interesting title, actually, because she doesn’t really talk about what she means by “crazy” in the first place. I think “crazy” here might be retranslated to “those who willingly watches pornography.” I’m frankly hoping someone…