Naomi Wolf talking crap again...

[SunsetBeetch]

(I have a feeling she thinks Titania McGrath is a real person, too.)

twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1179379426758418432?s=19

"The shameful anti-trans movement in the UK has connections with the US Koch-funded Heritage Foundation and its cynical manufacturing of hatred should be examined very critically."

Have you examined it, Naomi? If so, I imagine you employed your usual rigour

twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1179379426758418432?s=19

No comment of the screenshots of McKinnon's awful tweets. I bet she thinks McKinnon isn't a real person too.

She used to be vaguely credible. What happened to her?

if the Koch funded heritage foundation are reading this and are handing out free money, can I have some, please?

I only charge $10, 000 a post.

That twitter thread doesn't seem to be going her way

Poor old, dumb old Naomi.

Its not Koch's.

It's balls.

She really should stop trying to talk about the UK or its history, how many times is she prepared to be humiliated for her ignorance? Her last book contained school girl errors and she was shown up live on radio.

www.thecut.com/2019/05/naomi-wolf-interview-book-error-bbc-interview.html

That interview was radio gold. She came across as someone whose self-belief far outweighs their intelligence. I was embarrassed for her but she didn't seem to feel any shame whatsoever that she'd completely misunderstood a historical text on which her book is based.

She's a dolt.

I forgot the book! I was howling at that interview. Even I knew it was bullshit stats and couldn’t quite believe that she just got the basics so wrong. Maybe she just needed to read a few mor history books.

She had gone way down in my books anyways - now she had quite fallen off all together.

Hope she enjoys ‘playing nice’ with her new friends (until she says something they don’t like - and she will - and it all bites her on the arse).

What happened to Wolf? Last thing I remember her writing was the book Vagina, which featured the idea that women must smell men's armpits to be calm and happy.

Maybe she inhaled...

It's almost worth those like Wolf making their daft claims just so we can read the brilliant replies on Twitter

" which featured the idea that women must smell men's armpits to be calm and happy."

I doubt she has researched that one either

It appears that Wolf is now trying to rehabilitate her book, you know, the one where she was humiliated on BBC Radio over the embarrassing mistakes it contained:

twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1179378790289563650

Y’see normally I’d be all girly and feminine, and feel sorry for someone talking bollocks and getting caught out on national radio. But nah...

Oh that radio interview

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The radio interview is one of the most glorious I've ever heard. Not in a good way for Naomi, but glorious none the less.

I can't decide whether that or Ben Shapiro accusing Andrew Neill of being a leftie was funnier.

Naomi Wolf doubling down yesterday (presumably hoping to try to distract from the Titania McGrath drubbing).

twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1179378790289563650

"In my interview w/ Dr H G Cocks, author of Nameless Offences: 8 THOUSAND arrests for sodomitical offences in 19th C; 7000+, a "dark figure" w/ no final outcomes; 55 executions recorded in Parliamentary records. @nytimes, @dcexaminer, BBC, pls correct whitewash of LGBTQ+ history".

Matthew Sweet, the person who corrected Wolf on air, defends himself again. With facts.

twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1179514213867409409

"Apologies again. This is becoming like that old British sketch they show on German TV every New Year. But again I seem to be accused of whitewashing history, and again I must lay out the facts, as this is a serious and damaging allegation. So..."

"But it's an established fact that the last execution of this kind took place in 1835. @Outrages insists, erroneously & emphatically, that they continued into the Victorian era. It is a key argument of the book, as published in the UK by @ViragoBooks. It is wrong".

Is it possible that Wolf thinks that the word Victorian relates to the whole of the 19th century, rather than you know, the reign of Queen Victoria. Which started in 1837.

Is it possible that Wolf thinks that the word Victorian relates to the whole of the 19th century, rather than you know, the reign of Queen Victoria. Which started in 1837.

It is possible but would be an even more embarrassing error than the 'death recorded' one she appears to be doubling down on.

Why do people do this?

It's very strange that initially she accepted, with seeming good grace, that she was wrong, and is now insisting that she was right all along - even though the evidence directly contradicts her. I do wonder if she's quite right in the head.

For a woman who wrote a book about vaginas, she knows fuck all about vaginas too. No time for her. She's a daftie with a huge, powerful platform, total eejit.

Yeah, it is a bit strange all round really.

Same with the whole UK feminists are in league with the right wing stuff she trots out.

The Communist Party are the only ones who are against transgender ideology, stating that it is bourgeois individualism that goes against the material reality and class analysis fundamental to Marxism.

It seems that those who decide that the facts must change to reflect their beliefs, rather than the other way round, drive themselves mad. Like is happening to Trump.

Putting it another way, when you turn your back on reality, it's likely you'll slip your moorings.

The Communist Party are the only ones who are against transgender ideology

Very conservative, traditional, right-wingers are also against it, but for very different reasons.

Actual experts, people who have spent decades doing diligent research for little reward usually, are being chucked under the bus whenever a celeb or charlatan (often both together) comes along with a product to promote.

And it is always the individual experts who have to defend themselves.

Institutions themselves (who you think would have a vested interested in protecting their expert status) never seem to back up the individuals. Because they are too cowardly. They're happy to use the experts in their marketing, exploit their labour, profit from their expertise and then abandon them completely whenever a woke-soaked charlatan turns up.

It is shameful.

I just looked up a review of her book Vagina, which I remembered reading when it came out:

www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/07/vagina-new-biography-naomi-wolf-review

It's long, but worth a read, particularly the four paras starting "Back in 1990..." which include a mention of the time the reviewer had Wolf round for tea.