omg this is so embarrassing

Al Gore's Masculinity Adviser Naomi Wolf wrote a book about "forbidden love" or whatever.

A central claim of her book is that people were executed in England for sodomy as late as the 1830s.

She bases this on seeing the words "death recorded" on a number of sodomy cases.

It turns out "death recorded" doesn't mean that the prisoner was executed, but that the possibility of a death sentence was noted, and then the judge pardoned them.

This is the central claim of her book and she didn't bother to look up the meaning of the phrase. She just... guestimated.

This would be professional suicide for anyone who was not a Democrat agitator. For them, there is no such thing as professional embarrassment, just alternate pathways to promotion.

Imagine spending about nine months writing a book and then going out to promote it and only learning then that a "fact" central to your thesis is just completely wrong, and so your entire book is now not even fit to be pulped.

GOSH:

I wonder what OTHER great tales of SJW-centric historical suffering are ALSO popular hoaxes/exaggeration$.

Sounds like she may’ve been tittylated by the word sodomy.

your entire book is now not even fit to be pulped

That may be all it's good for. In fact, that was all it was ever good for. 8>)

I don’t know about that. I have one: side ejection, .307 Winchester. If I am ever in great need, I expect it to support my masculine inclinations quite handily.

25 posted on 05/25/2019 5:22:39 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)

I didn’t realize Naomi Wolf was this stupid.

Or the Readers, Fact-checkers and Editors at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

That publishing crowd must wear heavy lib blinders over their eyes when it comes to challenging looney leftist writers like Naomi.

Yeah, pretty hard to keep a straight face reading that

More proof that these people are totally incapable of embarrassment

27 posted on 05/25/2019 6:35:35 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)

Facts should never interfere with a useful narrative.

28 posted on 05/25/2019 8:25:33 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)

I think that ‘masculinity adviser’ is a creation of the author.

.....I think.

29 posted on 05/25/2019 8:35:25 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)

rest of the Naomi Wolf keyword, chrono:

30 posted on 05/25/2019 11:40:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

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