• Wertheimer [any]
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    3 years ago

    Hey, she's had a rough few years. Her whole book was based on a false premise and she didn't figure it out until she was promoting it on the radio. https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/naomi-wolf-interview-book-error-bbc-interview.html

    • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she’d uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of “death recorded,” a 19th-century English legal term. “Death recorded” means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence.

      Wolf thought the term meant execution.

      :yikes: