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Why Won’t Evo Psych Nonsense Go Away Already?

The latest feminist to write an incredibly satisfying pan of Naomi Wolf’s new Vagina book is Lindsay Beyerstein, and I have special affection for Lindsay’s because she takes a crack at The Beauty Myth, which is a book that I thought I was alone in feeling was kind of hackish…

Have Americans Given Up on Wuv?

Yes, yes, I realize that the DNC is on and Bill Clinton is a good speaker, but I’ve been live-tweeting and blogging and otherwise covering it, and I’m afraid another important bit of news is going to get lost. Which is that Naomi Wolf, who continues to be called a…

Chat with Naomi Wolf is educational…..

I agreed to do a chat today at the Guardian about abortion rights with Naomi Wolf. I thought it would be a quick and dirty educate the folks kind of thing, but instead it got really heated. Instead, she wanted to get me embroiled in a weird discussion about how…

Naomi Wolf slams feminists’ response to the Assange rape prosecution

Author and activist Naomi Wolf, whose sarcastic and prescriptive criticisms of the rape allegations against and prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange caused quite a stir in the feminist community in the last year, continued to vociferously defend her statements about rape, consensual sex and the need to reform rape…

Author Naomi Wolf arrested outside Huffington Post awards ceremony

Feminist author Naomi Wolf was arrested last night outside the Huffington Post’s “Game Changers” awards ceremony as she marched with about 150 members of “Occupy Wall Street” to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy. Cuomo, who was being honored by the AOL…

Naomi Wolf trolls, treats condoms like cutesy accessories

There is much wrong with Naomi Wolf’s clever selling out of her basic feminist principles to get a book review published in the Washington Post. She retreads every tired stereotype about feminism—that “second wavers” are a bunch of humorless harridans, that “third wavers” are frivolous ninnies, and also that “The…