Speaking with interviewer Matthew Street about her new book,
“Outrages,” ... Street pointed out
she had completely misunderstood a legal term. Wolf had decided that
there were several dozen executions of men for sodomy but did not
understand that that fact was incorrect because she didn’t understand
the legal term “death recorded.”
Oops.
Paglia in 1991:
And beauty, according to, um, Miss, um, Naomi
Wolf, is a heterosexist conspiracy by men in a room to keep feminism back--and
all that crap that's going on. I call her, by the way, "Little Miss Pravda."
She and I are head to head on MTV this week, in case you want to know! But I won't
appear with her. Oprah's tried to get me on with her: I won't go on with her.
A talk show in Italy wanted to fly me over to appear with her. No. I always say,
"Would Caruso appear with Tiny Tim?" If you want to see what's wrong with Ivy
League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a
woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and cannot
write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis,
and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent
women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It's a scandal. Naomi
Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if
you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding! She has a case
to make. She cannot make it. She's full of paranoid fantasies about the world.
Her education was completely removed from reality.
