― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
Yawn.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
RESPECT.
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― NERQ (Enrique), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― NERQ (Enrique), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
One must fantasise only about pr0n stars, or strangers? Am I allowed to fantasise about my wife? Other people I have had sex w/?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
On balance I like CP more than NW because she is madder. I can't really answer about the case in hand, but I think there is something in what CP is saying about how it's a bit late to be now bandying about accusations of sexual harrassment from twenty years ago.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
Also the author of possibly the worst, and among the dottiest, books on Shakespeare I've ever read. I've no idea if he sexually harrassed Wolf, but if he did this smug, sanctimonious charlatan deserves all the discomforting revelations she can dish out.
― ArfArf, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--02/19/2004--On Monday, February 23, a story will run in New York Magazine about sexual misconduct at Yale University.
In it, I include an account of Professor Harold Bloom's sexual approach toward me when I was an undergraduate student at Yale in 1983, as well as the stories of a number of other Yale students who experienced sexual misconduct involving other Yale faculty members and students over the past twenty years.
After Yale contacted me to help them raise money, I felt I had to tell them why I was reluctant to do so. I then had many conversations with Yale authorities over a period of recent months, telling my story, hoping for an off-the-record meeting to address my concerns about the school's grievance procedures. I got nowhere.
Several distinguished women have come forward in my piece to attest to the fact that there is a systemic problem at Yale University. Their intention in doing so, as is mine, is simply to make sure that women students are as safe today as they deserve to be.
To clarify reports in recent news stories, a letter Professor Bloom wrote to support my application for a Rhodes scholarship in 1983 was written before the incident I describe. That application was rejected. I was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1985, and Bloom was not one of my seven referees.
SOURCE: New York Magazine
From another listserv:
In her 1997 book Promiscuities, Ms. Wolf wrote about an unnamed college professor who placed his hand between her legs after showing up at her apartment to discuss her poetry. Other classmates, she claimed, had had similar experiences, but she thought she could resist. "My whole body, my whole self-image, once again, again, burned with culpability," she wrote. "It felt so familiar: this sense of being exposed as if in a slow-moving dream of shame. I could practically hear my own pulse: What had I done, done, done?"
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony, Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
having read 1,340,000,000 papers on shakespeare in general and Hhenry IV in particular last year for a college paper i can say that bloom's interpretation of falstaff is (mostly) right-on and refreshingly anti-monarchist. (he is especially OTM about the merry wives of windsor being a rotten play and a travesty of the character)
i don't think that was his interpretation of titus at all: as i remember he argues AGAINST that view of the play. if you want pomo readings of shakespeare there's plenty of em out there already, but i think bloom's intensely personal, pseudo-gnostic take on the plays is worthy in its own right.
my main problem with the book is that it is HORRIBLY organized and under-edited: you could chop two-thirds out of the text and it'd be a lot more readable.
agreed on the sonnets.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 23 February 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 23 February 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 23 February 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I had no idea Wolf was all-in on chemtrail and HAARP conspiracy theories these days.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
yeah she went weird. also I keep mentally confusing her with Naomi Klein who is not a nutter which makes it doubly confusing to me.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link
she now sounds like someone who was/is very bright but also spends 99% of their waking (and possibly sleeping) life stoned.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link
lol
(tbf, that legalese is quite something)
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Sweet's Inventing the Victorians is great.
I am so not surprised that Wolf has incorrect information in her books.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
kinda ouch but mostly lol
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
dropping "a major premise of your book is completely wrong" in the middle of an interview makes for some great dialogue
― mh, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
Naomi Wolf suspended from Twitter, presumably for some bonkers tweet suggesting the feces of covid-vaccinated people could be harmful to others
― Josefa, Saturday, 5 June 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
Let's see *you* eat it, then. Trust the science!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link
Wolf’s science presupposed that the problem was not knowing which faeces is not vaccine-tainted and therefore safe to eat
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
she should put that hypothesis to the test
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
She literally called for the sewage of vaccinated people to be separated from the general sewage, so that the water supply wouldn't be contaminated with mRNA. I fail to see any downside to this plan.
Btw the Johnson & Johnson vaccine doesn't use mRNA so if you had that one, your shit's good.
― Josefa, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
Wolf has also been posting about how nice conservatives turn out to be and how empowering shooting a gun is, seems like only a matter of time before she apologizes to Harold Bloom for saying groping was bad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
I keep saying this! pic.twitter.com/R6nLAAJ32Z— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) June 5, 2021
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
I recently read N Klein’s 2014 book on climate change & there is a recurrent healthy scepticism of miraculous technological solutions from “the scientific community” as an article of faith that saves anyone from having to think about necessary political/economic change; in light of this shit it’s very “you vs the Naomi she told you not to worry about”
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
whathttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3GFv7fXIAMnPUS.jpg
― Left, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
That must have been posted up thread, instant classic
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
oh 2019 I assumed it was new
― Left, Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
no!!! pic.twitter.com/H3qa3X4eQg— flglmn (@flglmn) May 29, 2021
― ufo, Sunday, 6 June 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
My one Naomi Wolf story is that my wife and I were at a public lakeside beach with our two kids when Wolf, a complete stranger to us, asked us to watch her two kids. She disappeared to god-knows-where for 90 minutes. Upon reappearing, she did not thank us. Fin.— David Kamp (@MrKamp) June 5, 2021
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 June 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
that’s hilarious but also kinda genuinely horrifying
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 6 June 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
telling thread
Now that Naomi Wolf has been suspended, worth remembering that her Beauty Myth was published in the same year as Black Feminist Thought by Parricia Hill Collins. In 1990.Publishing CHOSE to make shoddy non-feminist hot air its ‘big’ book and the aithor into THE feminist.— Sunny Singh (@ProfSunnySingh) June 6, 2021
― Left, Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
LOL @ that Belfast post.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 7 June 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link
Very nice.
Naomi Wolf is headlining an anti-vax "liberation" event on Juneteenth. Organizers told me conflating the holiday celebrating the end of chattel slavery and Covid restrictions was appropriate because "we have been enslaved by our government."https://t.co/eAytxIyFxd— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 8, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
She's leaning in
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
oh...my god.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
If you help smuggle people out of heavily vaccinated areas into places where they can freely get themselves and others sick is it an Underground Ailroad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
It’s too bad they’re not dumb enough to have that shit in Texas.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
She's still at it.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/09/gb-news-censured-after-naomi-wolf-compared-covid-jab-to-mass-murder
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link