Naomi Wolf’s Book Canceled After Her Research Was Undercut During A Radio Interview

[PeteS in CA]

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/10/22/naomi-wolfs-book-finally-canceled-research-undercut-radio/

Naomi Wolf’s Book Canceled After Her Research Was Undercut During A Radio Interview

Naomi Wolf’s forthcoming book “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love,” has finally been canceled, marking the end of an embarrassing chapter in Wolf’s career. The book was initially delayed after a radio host uncovered significant errors in Wolf’s research
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One of the issues raised in the book was the alleged execution of various people in 19th century England for the crime of sodomy. Wolf claimed to have identified several dozen executions of homosexuals, including some who were only teenagers.

However, in a BBC radio interview to promote the book, host Matthew Sweet revealed that Wolf had made a critical mistake. She misunderstood a bit of archaic court terminology (“Death recorded”) to mean people had been executed when in fact it meant they had been pardoned. ...
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Just as bad, Sweet found that all of the people Wolf was presenting as victims in her book were in fact found guilty of rape and, in some cases, pedophilia

An effort to paint Victorian England as some sort of brutal sexual Dark Ages falls apart in the face of facts. Quite the non-shock, really.

[Wingnut]

Words have meaning.  Just not what you think when removed 2 or 3 hundred years!

[goatprairie]

Naomi Wolf is just one of hundreds of liberal scribblers who routinely substitute falsehoods/lies in place of the truth.
Like the recent release of the report that one in four college females are sexually assaulted while in school.
The real number is more like six in one thousand.
Six in one thousand is six too many, but it's not like one out of four.
Curiously enough, the people who did the survey didn't ask the students if they were assaulted, they just deduced it from the answers to questions to the coeds.  77% of the coeds admitted to have been drinking at the time they were supposedly sexually assaulted. 
And attempted rape was not the sole determinant of sexual assault. Simply having a hand placed on a backside was enough to constitute sexual assault according to the survey.
If you were a parent, would you send your daughter to a school where the likelihood that she would be raped was one in four? Highly unlikely.