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struggle4progress

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 03:48 PM Nov 2012

Naomi Wolf thinks the Petraeus story is about snooping by the national security state [View all]

Sexual privacy under threat in a surveillance society
By Naomi Wolf, Special to CNN
updated 1:31 PM EST, Mon November 19, 2012
... this story is about the terrifying power of the Patriot Act, married to the terrifying power of the resurrected Espionage Act -- and combined with a lethal admixture of our nation's Puritanism, prurience about and ignorance regarding sexuality ...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/19/opinion/wolf-marriage-infidelity/index.html

Speaking as a boring old pasty-skinned guy, I really really hope Naomi Wolf is not the new face of feminism that her admirers consider her to be, because I find her to be a gigantic moron. Of course, the Petraeus story seems to be chock-full of morons, so Naomi Wolf has to work quite hard here, to stand out in the crowd -- but IMO she's having some success


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