Feminists Naomi Wolf VS Maureen Tkacik: Why Do Some People Have Jobs, Again?

Third-wave feminist pioneer Naomi Wolf and Jezebel's Maureen Tkacik debate the recent Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case, and Tkacik's views are just...embarrassing.

Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland moderated this interview between the two women for Reuters.

Naomi Wolf, in case you don't know, is the author of controversial feminist works like The Beauty Myth and is largely credited with the advent of "third wave feminism", in which a new generation of feminists embraced each others' differences and decided feminism could be acted out in different ways (i.e. you can wear heels and look slutty and still be a feminist).

Maureen Tkacik ("Moe"), on the other hand, has had a career as a writer for corporate-owned, commodity-feminism-driven "women's website" Jezebel.com, and is the author of such journalistic masterpieces of great intellectual thought and feeling as 2008's "10 Days in the life of a Tampon" in which she describes fucking, like, ten different guys in one week completely devoid of any feeling or connection on any real level, calling this shit "routine debauchery" and referring to men in such respectful ways as "sex partner d'giorno" while lamenting, you know, her period. It's almost pitiful listening to her total lack of self esteem as she describes making out with a guy who then lets her down by telling her he wants to marry his girlfriend so, you know, he can't take her home and do her, and she just goes and fucks a bunch of losers she doesn't like, while totally intoxicated, like, on a Tuesday. Anyway, people consider her a real feminist, because she wrote about tampons and sex, and that's girl stuff!

"Oh, wait, Heidi, don't slut shame!!" is probably what someone is thinking. Fine. I won't shame the slut for having sex. But I'd like to point out that if you're getting wasted every night, fucking random people and have virtually zero human connection to anyone, you have bigger problems than "OMG my period sucks!"

Anyway, "Moe" and Naomi were invited on Reuters as two feminists to talk about the recent case in which French former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for sexually assaulting his hotel maid.

Wolf is reasonable, rational, and defends judicial due process while Tkacik says she was date-raped once in college in Pittsburgh, but never reported it because "that kind of thing happens there." She also says that rape is a result of men "not taking women seriously" and that we can assume a sleazy dude is guilty before conducting a trial.

Naomi Wolf wants to rip her head off, as do I. She points out that Tkacik has no real concept of women's consent and criminal behavior versus seduction. Reading Tkacik's Tampon Article, in which she continually gets so drunk she doesn't remember having sex and wakes up with no idea what happened the night before but knows she definitely had sex may have a warped concept of "consent" as well.

Speaking of which - how the fuck do people like Moe get a job? By being "edgy"? Do the old, white men in charge know what "edgy" is? Because I think there's a big difference between "edgy" and "fucking dumb" and I'm not sure why The Washington Post, where Moe now writes, can't tell the difference. This woman is not only all about "feminism is sex with drunk strangers and also abortions because I get them" but she clearly has no idea about laws, rape, date rape, love affairs, and the differences between all of those things. Moe makes feminists under 30 look like idiots. She makes women look like dumb whores. I'm on team Naomi at this point, who makes sure to say she believes in due process, women reporting rape, and making a distinction between sleazy behavior and criminal behavior. And smart women, and smart people, know the differences. Watch the debate: