Even back in the day she wasn't nearly as hot as she thought she was. She looked too much like the girls in high school who thought that just because they WEREN'T dazzlingly pretty, then they MUST have brains, right? Her observations were the same old feminist blather with a layer of "but I like sex with men" sleaze to make her seem like she wasn't a manhater. She's not; she's also yet another of these chatters who take accepted wisdom and trot it out like it's some amazing thing they alone discovered.
Man, being stuck in a corner of the room with her at a party, having to listen to that blather while she tosses her head like she thinks every guy in the room is looking at her.... I've never seen such a "feminist" who was so hungry for male attention.
You're right. Part of 'Puffinstuff's' gimmick all along was that she was something a babe, and the dirty non-secret was that she never really was.
Seeing her 'work it' now is unintentional comedy. You hit the nail on the head - she is certainly not ugly but certainly not a prom queen, she fell into the paradigm that 'she must' be smart, followed by 'she must' be witty and insightful. As you say, she is none of the above.
Her points are hackneyed and tired, and on O'R tonight clearly not very well thought out. It was an embarassing wasted 6 minute segments (Bill would do better to cart out a porn actress or former high class prostitute, as he is prone to doing about once a month).
Any you are right again about imagining a scene with her at a party. You know the type: very alone, talks too much, ostebsibly 'successful' mostly be her own standards, her rap is that she is smart and insightful, but really she is trying painfully to 'work' that glimmer of sex appeal she once had in her 21st Century 165lb frame. She was doing it clear as a bell on O'R.
She truly is the feminist most hungry for some kind of validation from men (sexual and otherwise). Whacked out.
And whenever any woman giggles "Oh, you're so smart" at me I always respond with "Actually, I'm not." Nice way to shut them down.
In Naomi's case, I think lately she has found herself standing at a 2nd avenue bar 25 minutes after last call, all alone, yet thoroughly convinced that every guy was so into her and that they were just 'afraid' to approach her.
To which I have to say, "TAXI!!!!" ;-)