Friday, March 05, 2004
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Responsa from Svetlana, school psychologist, Philadelphia:
“Read both Naomi’s crocodile tear-stained assault and the Anne Applebaum response:
Wolf is using this relatively harmless sexual faux paux to advance her feminist agenda and who can blame her?...I can. This late date confessional smacks of those ritual abuse accusations. Any true sympathy I may have felt for the guileless co-ed or indignation I’d have liked to fire at old White men who are insatiable for power is erased by the fact that her accusation comes 20 years too late.
Your boundaries have been breeched, your pride hurt, your ethics pinched: Go home and discuss it with family, friends etc. Take a week. Decide how best to report it and then fuckin’ report it. I must assume that her sudden move to reveal this flaw in Bloom is motivated by her desire to ruin his reputation. If she truly cared about getting him to stop playing grab-ass, she’d have done something about it while matriculated.
Wolf’s overly theatrical über-Jewish, guilt-ridden confession of being a “victim” is just plain phony – especially in light of the Rhodes scholarship recommendation she accepted or maybe even solicited from the sexual fiend who so stunted her confidence.
Maybe she feels real shame for not speaking up but she needs a therapist to purge her of that, not an editorial page. She is pretending to be a hurt little lamb but is fact a powerful,
successful, advocate for women’s issues. This deceit impugns her integrity and therefore weakens any arguments she may make on unrelated topics – what a bad career move! She may take down Bloom but will do so at the risk of toppling herself.
Yes, I am a feminist – but one who believes that crying for the sake of manipulation is what gives, “the weaker gender” this bad reputation. Go bolster the Roe v. Wade decision, go educate female voters as to a candidate’s record on women’s issues – don’t pretend that a man’s hand on your thigh caused you irreparable psychic trauma. And if it did: go work at a rape crisis center, don’t bitch about a crude gesture twenty years ago as if it were a true rape.”
Comments: ozymandias_1@hotmail.com
Responsa from Svetlana, school psychologist, Philadelphia:
“Read both Naomi’s crocodile tear-stained assault and the Anne Applebaum response:
Wolf is using this relatively harmless sexual faux paux to advance her feminist agenda and who can blame her?...I can. This late date confessional smacks of those ritual abuse accusations. Any true sympathy I may have felt for the guileless co-ed or indignation I’d have liked to fire at old White men who are insatiable for power is erased by the fact that her accusation comes 20 years too late.
Your boundaries have been breeched, your pride hurt, your ethics pinched: Go home and discuss it with family, friends etc. Take a week. Decide how best to report it and then fuckin’ report it. I must assume that her sudden move to reveal this flaw in Bloom is motivated by her desire to ruin his reputation. If she truly cared about getting him to stop playing grab-ass, she’d have done something about it while matriculated.
Wolf’s overly theatrical über-Jewish, guilt-ridden confession of being a “victim” is just plain phony – especially in light of the Rhodes scholarship recommendation she accepted or maybe even solicited from the sexual fiend who so stunted her confidence.
Maybe she feels real shame for not speaking up but she needs a therapist to purge her of that, not an editorial page. She is pretending to be a hurt little lamb but is fact a powerful,
successful, advocate for women’s issues. This deceit impugns her integrity and therefore weakens any arguments she may make on unrelated topics – what a bad career move! She may take down Bloom but will do so at the risk of toppling herself.
Yes, I am a feminist – but one who believes that crying for the sake of manipulation is what gives, “the weaker gender” this bad reputation. Go bolster the Roe v. Wade decision, go educate female voters as to a candidate’s record on women’s issues – don’t pretend that a man’s hand on your thigh caused you irreparable psychic trauma. And if it did: go work at a rape crisis center, don’t bitch about a crude gesture twenty years ago as if it were a true rape.”
Comments: ozymandias_1@hotmail.com
