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That was an unnecessary amount of cringe to bear for a Friday afternoon. I could have done without that. This is the real life version of the kind of dream wh
by TheMagicHorsey 7y ago
That was an unnecessary amount of cringe to bear for a Friday afternoon. I could have done without that. This is the real life version of the kind of dream where you catch yourself giving a lecture naked.
Having said that, I think the author did the right thing. She accepted that the premise of her book was wrong, and she promised to correct it. That's more than most people do when caught out live like that.
- chrisdhoover 7y agoWhat choice does she have? She fancies herself a public intellectual. Turns out she’s a ninny
- theoh 7y agoShe didn't accept that the premise was wrong, just that this particular detail was inaccurate: "Wolf said she appreciated Sweet’s “important correction”, but rejected the idea that it challenged the main thrust of her book. “Outrages doesn’t purport to be a comprehensive database of eventual sentences served for sodomy,” she explained. “Its focus is on the reception of news about laws and sentences by a group of friends, as well as eventual arrests of friends of Symonds.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/24/naomi-wolf-admits-blunder-over-victorians-and-sodomy-executions https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/...
- TheMagicHorsey 7y agoI guess I will have to gracefully admit I was wrong in saying that she gracefully admitted that she was wrong.
- DanBC 7y agoShe hasn't though. She's been going through Twitter correcting people.