Why Do So Many Feminists Hate Naomi Wolf?
Why is feminist scholar Naomi Wolf resented by so many feminists? I am serious, I have read so many negative things about Naomi Wolf.
One of the criticism I have read about Wolf is since she is a very attractive, heterosexual, feminist, she is considered a hypocrite and a stereotype.
The stereotype is that although Wolf is a” feminist” she conforms to compulsory heterosexuality.
However, Wolf is a straight woman and why can’t a feminist also be beautiful?
There is nothing wrong with the fact Wolf takes care of herself and wants to be presentable.
I think some feminists are just jealous because Wolf is not only beautiful but also an incredible writer and scholar.
Remember Naomi Wolf is a “Rhodes Scholar” the woman is a genius!
Why can’t a woman be attractive and also believe in feminism?
Wolf burst on to the writing scene in 1991 with her best selling debut breakthrough “The Beauty Myth”. I love “The Beauty Myth” because the book examines the pressures society places on women to conform to heterosexist beauty standards in order to be palatable.
Wolf examined five areas where women are under attack in relation to beauty: religion, sex, hunger, work, and violence. I was impressed with “The Beauty Myth”.
Wolf was criticized for her research in relation to how many young women die from anorexia. In “The Beauty Myth”, Wolf says 150,000 young women die every year from anorexia. Wolf admitted the statistic was too a bit too high though. At least, Wolf can admit when she is wrong.
Wolf is gorgeous, she can’t help it that she is so beautiful. Naomi Wolf is also incredibly brilliant. Naomi has written seven books most of the books are on feminist issues. I have read four of Naomi’s books: “The Beauty Myth”, “Fire With Fire”, “Promiscuities”, and “Misconceptions”.
One of the complaints about Wolf is, since she is a heterosexual white woman of a higher social class she cannot relate to other women.
However, Naomi Wolf has never claimed that she writes about “all women’s issues”. Naomi Wolf writes books based on her own personal experiences in relation to feminism.
One of the wonderful aspects of feminist politics is that there are so many feminist writers such as bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Camille Paglia, Dionne Brand, Adrienne Rich to choose from. I think there is room for every feminist to present a perspective to the world.
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Naomi Wolf happens to be a hypocrite. We aren’t jealous of her in the least. She wrote The Beauty Myth, in which she hugely exaggerated statistics, and said that women are suffering when they try to be beautiful, and yet she has no problem beautifying herself, even to the extent of showing herself in a magazine. It’s one thing to call out the pressures of women conforming to beauty, but then to do it yourself? As for admitting she was wrong, it really was the very least she could have and hardly makes up for it. Because of the falsifications, it just added to the belief that feminists don’t know what they’re talking about. Furthermore, the Assange case has shed some light on her disturbingly backwards view on rape. There are plenty of attractive, straight feminists who don’t falsify information, who aren’t hypocrites, and who agree that the only true consent is enthusiastic consent. As for Camille Paglia…I don’t even want to get into that right now. Point is, feminists don’t dislike other ‘feminists’ without good reason.
Hello Alex, I believe Naomi Wolf is a very important feminist because The Beauty Myth really did challenge a lot of the patriarchy in relation to the issue of the beauty industries.
I think Wolf is very important because she presents another image and social representation of feminism.
Wolf likes men and I think it is great that this feminist icon wants to work with men and believes in gender equality.
One of the problems I see in feminism is there is this belief there is supposed to be a certain way a feminist is supposed to act.
Naomi Wolf never claimed she spoke for all women she is a woman that wrote about her own experiences.
Wolf is a very beautiful woman and she should not be ashamed of her beauty. I do not see a problem with Wolf looking sexy because a woman can be sexy and be a feminist.
She provides a heterosexual female perspective to the feminist movement. Feminism is often stereotyped as being the domiain of lesbians and I feel it is important for straight women to have their voices heard as well.
There’s nothing wrong with trying to make yourself beautiful. I think women deserve equality on all levels of society. If Ms. Wolf apologized for writing incorrect information isn’t that enough? One person’s feminism is another person’s common sense. When a woman accepts in her own mind that she is inferior to men simply because she is a woman she is taking a wrong turn.