[lbo-talk] The eXile disses Naomi Klein

[Devine, James]

Naomi Wolf writes:
>And here and there, hanging back, you will see their misguided, self-hating female collaborators, doing their best to look like their male Alpha-wolf leaders in deliberately unflattering hairstyles and cast-off biker and soldier garments. The sheer unattractiveness of these victims' style is itself the best evidence for the benefits of shopping-benefits these women have chosen to forego.


>What is clear is this: anti-Consumerism is misogyny. To hate shopping and all of its representations is to hate women.


>As women cower against the crash of glass, pitifully trying to cover their heads with the tiny shield of a Gold Card, these Green stormtroopers destroy women's last safe inner space, their cultural vulva. And as these stupid boys spread their phallocentric terror under the guise of "anti-Consumerism," right-wing rich men applaud.<

sure, some idiots probably broke some store windows in the name of "anti-Consumerism," but who are they? who are the "self-haters" who are so outre in their style (gasp!)? it's easy to critique some ideology that has no named leaders and no named books or articles that represent its ideas! what crap! what does this have to do with Naomi Klein, anyway?

Jim D.