She writes about a recent trip to the People's Republic of San Francisco:
SO here is why I am the way I am — that is believing in freedom and civic engagement. San Francisco today…beautiful sunny day, the fog resting just on the crest of the hills over Twin Peaks. We went to see the Catro — my memory is of throngs of young men, bare-chested or in leather chaps and leather caps, milling around outside the bars — just revelling in being proud of who they were after whole lives of hiding and shame. I think the gay rights movement in SF in the seventies was so formative for me– I saw this big group of people just suddenly be DONE with shame, lesser legal status, marginalization, and they organized and elected their own power brokers and changed everything.
Well there were no milling crowds…where was everyone? MAybe AIDS and other STDs have changed that scene completely….but a glimpse of the past tradition was there nonetheless: a nice new civic patio had been built at the top of Castro street — a huge rainbow flag blew above it — and there were chairs and tables and pretty landscaping, people seated enjoying the sun. And at one table was an absolutely beautiful young man, about six foot three or four, in perfect physical condition – tanned, oiled, like a living Greek statue, perfectly hairless — wearing cowboots boots as I recall and a hat but otherwise completely nude. And absolutely no one bothered him because — well, he was bothering absolutely nobody.
That is why I am the way I am..that was the SF I grew up in…a city of total tolerance.Oh yeah , real tolerant. Unless you want to sell happy meals, tear down dilapidated buildings in the Tenderloin and build new structures there, rent apartments at the market rate, and on and on.
But, hey, I guess if men can walk around with their dicks hanging out that's heaven for a woman whose next book is titled, Vagina, in which she advances the news that "an increasing body of scientific evidence... suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain"
The more likely scenario is that he could no longer afford pants after he paid his taxes.
ReplyDeleteThis made me LOL!
Delete"in which she advances the news that "an increasing body of scientific evidence... suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain"
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
Women have been making that argument about men and their penis's for years, only most everyone understood it was proverbial.
That doesn't speak well as to her insights.
As a very heterosexual woman--I'd carry a card if they issued them--the second to last thing I want to see is a gay man sitting outside in nothing but a pair of boots. The last thing I want to see is vagina anything: monologues, books, pride rallies. What a bunch of pretentious horse manure masquerading as intellectual sophistication. Nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI agree Watson. That kind of debauched thinking degrades women, and incorrectly places biological issues far above moral and spiritual truths. Women and men cannot be summed up by their genitalia. We are here for far more than that. I believe that the true nature for our beloved close ones, is sacrifice and love.
DeleteI have to be honest, I don't really want to know what she thinks, let alone what her vagina thinks.
ReplyDeleteMr. Garrison from South Park: I'm Sorry Wendy, but I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
ReplyDeleteIf a dude was standing around in a SS uniform not bothering anybody would she be so nice ?
ReplyDeleteLet's not put down this vagina theory.
Now us guy can really and truthfully say "Yes, I love you for your mind" !
Gurl Power !
Naomi Power !
Always a bright side. eh? :)
DeleteMy penis has a higher IQ than any vagina. Well, its taller anyway.
ReplyDeleteMust read, related article by Fred Reed:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fredoneverything.net/Fido_Reconsidered.shtml
When I registered for the draft in 1974, I asked my Italian immigrant dad, now 86 years old and in a nursing home, whether fighting for my country wasn't the honorable thing to do. He came unglued:
ReplyDelete"What?! Fight? *Your* country?! Where do you get these ideas?! No! You have no country! You know where my country is? In between my legs! That's my country! That's all I live for! That's all I fight for! That's all I'll die for!"
The penis is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of libertarian insight. Aside from special times with that special someone, I think it best to keep it in your pants nonetheless.
I'm sorry, but what the hell are you talking about?
DeleteOf course, SF hipsters could live in a private voluntary Rothbardian community where they put all of their money in a single joint checking account and walk around naked. But they really don't want that either.
ReplyDeleteI heard Naomi Speak at the 2008 Ron Paul march in DC. She is good on civil liberties but the does not comment on economic liberty.
ReplyDeleteComedy writer Dave Barry used to preface his articles with the statement "I am not making this up".
ReplyDeleteJim,MtnView,Ca,USA
Why the Naomi Wolf hate, huh people? Why do you follow Wenzel's attack on Wolf? He's a womanizer. His history of posts makes that abundantly clear.
ReplyDeleteHe is attacking idiotic ideas, not the woman herself. He also exposes the idiotic ideas and actions of men when it is warranted. Modern life has nearly destroyed the overall relationship between men, women and the family. The state is now largely viewed as the provider and cure of most social ills. It is the death of natural exchange and intimate human relationships that can truly grow to know and understand other people and their needs. This is largely the difference between genuine education and "training." Naomi Wolf does not distinguish between the modern welfare state, the wars it creates, and the civil liberties it destroys. These are inextricably linked. People naturally have their own problems. They do not need a strong nation-state or supranational government to institutionalize problems and exacerbate them. Modern people no longer appreciate the venerated ideal of women as intelligent carriers of life who nuture and educate people to develop moral virtue.
Delete"Oh yeah , real tolerant. Unless you want to sell happy meals, tear down dilapidated buildings in the Tenderloin and build new structures there, rent apartments at the market rate, and on and on."
ReplyDeleteDon't forget about protesting the Fed! The Federal Reserve Bank branch on Market St. is the only place left in the Financial District that still has barricades that occupy most of the sidewalk. One time I was crossing the street wearing a Ron Paul shirt, and you could have sworn the guards were looking at me as if I had just come from committing a murder.
While Naomi Wolf may be good on issues like the police state, she is terrible on other issues. I turn away from people like her toward far more esteemed scholars (at Mises, etc.) like Thomas DiLorenzo, who has said that being a libertarian does NOT mean being a libertine. We do need freedom to be moral, and mankind should not have the power to punish every "transgression," but freedom is the means to do what is moral and good; like love/honor our spouses and take loving care of our children. One can clearly have the opinion that conjugal love is more important than procreation. But this has severe consequences, as we have seen. It is the wise man who can detect patterns, and trace cause and effect. That is why I admire Butler Schaffer's statement (during Mr. Wenzel's interview) that Austrian economics discusses qualitative subjects that cannot necessarily be measured.
ReplyDeleteGreat conversation between Naomi Wolf and Lew Rockwell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2008/10/31/58-americas-slow-motion-fascist-coup/
ReplyDeleteNo kidding. Dave Barry, call your office.
ReplyDeleteWould Naomi throw a fit if instead of the v word, we called her the c word?
what libertarian garbage!
ReplyDeleteIf Ms. Wolf committed a major crime, I would venture that she could claim the insanity defense by simply entering copies of her previous works into evidence. Her orgasms, her vagina, she could not be more obnoxious nor more selfish. this book contains info that should have been between her and her psychiatrist
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