[Reader-list] Naomi Wolf Writes To Interpol By Naomi Wolf 11 December, 2010

[anuradha mukherjee]

Great post!

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Venugopalan K M <kmvenuannur at gmail.com>wrote:

> Naomi Wolf Writes To Interpol
>
> *By Naomi Wolf*
>
> 11 December, 2010
> *Antiwar.com*<
> http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/09/naomi-wolf-writes-to-interpol/>
>
> Dear Interpol:
>
> As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new
> commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who
> behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating.
>
> I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two
> women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the
> alleged
> victims’ complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting
> and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women’s apartments while
> on a date, and, disgustingly enough, ‘reading stories about himself online’
> in the cab.
>
> Both alleged victims are also upset that he began dating a second woman
> while still being in a relationship with the first. (Of course, as a
> feminist, I am also pleased that the alleged victims are using
> feminist-inspired rhetoric and law to assuage what appears to be personal
> injured feelings. That’s what our brave suffragette foremothers intended!).
>
> Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global
> manhunt
> for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in
> the
> US alone – there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you
> need
> to arrest immediately. I also have firsthand information that John Smith in
> Providence, Rhode Island, went to a stag party – with strippers! – that his
> girlfriend wanted him to skip, and that Mark Levinson in Corvallis, Oregon,
> did not notice that his girlfriend got a really cute new haircut – even
> though it was THREE INCHES SHORTER.
>
> Terrorists. Go get ‘em, Interpol!
>
> Yours gratefully,
> Naomi Wolf
>
> Naomi Wolf is the author of The End of America and Give Me Liberty.
>
>
>
>
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