I know very little about her personally except for some recent opinions on the COVID issue and what feminist junk I read from her over the years which was not very much.
My impression was a feminist woman with some writing skills who was wealthy and contemptuous of conservatives and their values, and lived an insulated life in Manhattan on the cocktail circuit, at all the “right” parties with the “right” people, someone who would appear as a face in the crowd at the Oscars, etc.
In short, not someone whose opinions meant anything at all to me. I had read a piece here, an article there, over the years, but I stopped doing even that some time ago.
I find that is the way with a lot of Leftists. I mean, I have gotten to the point over the years that I can read an article and discern in the first sentence, if not first few words of a sentence just exactly what a Leftist is going to say. And I have been spot on 90%+ of the time.
I have often said that the transparency of Leftists is something I actually am quite grateful for, as their predictability has saved me literally weeks or even months of my life by being able to grasp their shallow stupidity seconds into their works, rather than burrowing 10 minutes into it to realize it is another vapid intellectual dead end.
I have read a lot of their “work”, so this is something I thank them for, oddly enough.
Heh — I know just what you mean about the transparency. They are as predictable as clockwork. Of course they would say the same thing about conservatives but they’re wrong. There’s a profound asymmetry in our politics because of the way our media and culture are structured. Whereas conservatives have near total insight into what makes liberals tick, liberals are clueless about conservatives and truly don’t know what they don’t know. You said it well earlier that conservatives are forced by the environment into a deeper level of examination.
As for Naomi Wolf, I’ve never followed her or read her beyond a piece here or there, but I know she’s a pretty big name and I know that she’s representative of a lot of people on the left. So if she’s having these thoughts, then a bunch more of them are probably having them too. Plus just a high profile change of heart like hers is going to stun some folks and get their attention. I see it has very significant and a good sign.