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February 26, 2004

Will Someone Please Place a Call to Erica Jong Now, Please?

by Ron Hogan

I think Paglia is a frustrated, jealous bitch, whose star is very much on the wane and who has always wanted to fuck Wolf. And, of course, she could barely pull a skunk without money changing hands, she's so disgusting. And that's my considered opinion on the matter.

Julie Burchill (who probably could pull Wolf, if she's still into that sort of thing) offers the most insightful analysis of those female members of the media elite invited by The Guardian to weigh in on Naomi Wolf's allegations. Opinions range from Andrea Dworkin's cautious support ("I dislike everything she has ever written. But she would not lie or exaggerate, especially not about a matter of sexual harassment") to bored dismissal from the former editor of British Cosmo ("I'm sure tons of lecturers have put hands on thighs") to a whirlwind display of free association from Elizabeth Wurtzel that inevitably returns again and again to the subject she knows best:

I've got to say I'm sorry to hear the allegations. I went to Harvard, but I think Yale has a pretty clean bill of health where sexual harassment is concerned. I don't remember having an experience like that at college. Maybe that's just because I wasn't very attractive...Most people don't know or care who Bloom is. I've met him, and he's really kinda creepy.

Comments

I love Julie Burchill. Her kiss-off column to the Guardian was wonderful. Here it is if you missed it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1094420,00.html

"Think of famous anti-Zionist windbags - Redgrave, Highsmith, Galloway - and what dreary, dysfunctional, po-faced vanity confronts us. When we consider famous Jew-lovers, on the other hand - Marilyn, Ava, Liz, Felicity Kendal, me - what a sumptuous banquet of radiant humanity we look upon!"

Posted by: bd at February 26, 2004 06:26 PM

I almost prefer the bit right before that one:

"I can't help noticing that, over the years, a disproportionate number of attractive, kind, clever people are drawn to Jews; those who express hostility to them, however, from Hitler to Hamza, are often as not repulsive freaks."

Posted by: editor at February 26, 2004 08:51 PM
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