{"id":9059,"date":"2012-09-20T02:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2012-09-20T02:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:57:29","slug":"naomi-wolfs-vagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/naomi-wolfs-vagina\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Wolf’s Vagina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Naomi Wolf. Once, she was a respected\u00a0feminist\u00a0thinker, her book The Beauty Myth<\/em> staking a place in the second wave feminist pantheon. She was never a radical but she was a person to take seriously. Her recent support of Julian Assange against his female adversaries who accused him of rape was a weird moment, incurring the wrath of many of her peers. I felt sorry for her. But not as sorry as I feel for her now that she’s written a ridiculous love letter to her vagina. Okay, not a love letter; she calls it a biography.<\/p>\n

Given the powers she has attributed to her vagina, it should have insisted on writing an autobiography. Maybe the chore of writing is beneath her vagina. It is too exalted, what with being the\u00a0repository\u00a0of \u00a0her strength, her wellbeing, her life-force and her very soul. Everything necessary for an effective life of a women can be found, not to mention celebrated and\u00a0worshiped, right there in her vagina!<\/p>\n

Naomi Wolf is like a schoolgirl with her first crush, according to reviews of her book, and her crush is her vagina. She seeks affirmation from a vagina guru\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0a funny name, who gazes into her eyes and says something like “I see you, I honor you, and I honor your vagina.” But he calls it a yoni<\/em>, recognizing \u00a0its Eastern, mystical\u00a0essence. Then he calls it a “Goddess.”<\/p>\n

FINALLY! A word I can use to describe my female area! I informed my husband that we would now refer to my Goddess as my Goddess. He is on board.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Naomi had more than money in mind, ahem, when she came up with the title for her book But my\u00a0clitoris\u00a0would like to take issue with her, even\u00a0though\u00a0it’s in no mood to write a whole book. \u00a0I believe that the clitoris is the one to speak to, the one to revere, the CEO, as it were. Ignore the clitoris and you end up looking for gurus who have funny names and have to gaze into your eyes.<\/p>\n

While we wrestle with our shame over poor Naomi’s book, lets keep things in perspective by considering Myrtle Corbin<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Born in 1868, Myrtle married and,\u00a0possessing\u00a0two vaginas, she apparently produced 5 children using both sets of organs. \u00a0Now what, Naomi?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"