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VIRGINIA POSTREL ON NAOMI WOLF ON ANGELINA JOLIE: Unlike Paskin, I do not regard Wolf as ?a ser?

By Glenn Reynolds

VIRGINIA POSTREL ON NAOMI WOLF ON ANGELINA JOLIE:

Unlike Paskin, I do not regard Wolf as ?a serious feminist and thinker.? She?s a feminist, certainly, but neither serious nor a thinker. She is an emoter, whose work typically generalizes from her narcissistic neediness to ?the female experience.? It is usually an intellectually frivolous approach.

But this time it works brilliantly, though not in the way Wolf intends.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 20, 2009 (boomark / email).