Feminist writer Naomi Wolf consults lawyers over Ali G

Ananova ^ | March 10, 2003 | Ananova

[Mister Magoo]

Feminist writer consults lawyers over Ali G

Feminist writer Naomi Wolf has reportedly called in lawyers after being the victim of a spoof interview with Ali G.

She claims she was used for racist humour, after the comic accosted her at a hotel in New York for his new US chat show.

It is thought Wolf was furious when Ali - alias Sacha Baron Cohen - boasted to her that he called his girlfriend, Julie, bitch in bed.

And he got her to rap: "Yo, yo, don't be sexist, I'll let you ride in my Lexus."

He then asked the author - who writes women's rights books - if females would ever fly airliners.

She said they already did, and he said: "No, not the people who hand out the peanuts, but sitting in the pilot's seat."

Ali also joked that if women were given equal rights at work, "they'll want them at home".

US network HBO has decided not to screen the interview, according to The Sun.

Story filed: 08:08 Monday 10th March 2003

[Paul Atreides]

Oh boo hoo! After eight years of silence on Bubba and the feminazis suddenly rediscover their voices.

[Dog]

ROFL!!!!

[goldstategop]

Hey Naomi, if you can't stand politically incorrect jokes, don't go to an interview. And if a guy starts making fun of women what are you hiding behind lawyers for? A Big Girl can take of herself in front of man by cutting it short and shaming him. Like with most things in life, the courts aren't the best way to settle injured feelings.

[So Cal Rocket]

She claims she was used for racist humour

I didn't realize that females had their own race now.

[Mr.Clark]

I can't believe HBO is giving in here! They can show a pregnant stripper being beat to death on the Sopranos, but this goes to far? Please, this is just damn funny.

[Pharmboy]

Whassa matter Naomi? Can't take the heat? Get outta the kitchen...or wait a minute...STAY in the kitchen! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[fnord]

I didn't realize that females had their own race now.

Maybe females are a separate race, while women are are not ...

[Paul Atreides]

Looking at feminazis, I think it would be more accurate to classify them as a species.

[babaloo999]

I just saw a Maureen Dowd column in the paper about how Ali G outsmarted and supposedly humiliated James Baker.
She was so proud. Her examples were the usual nonsense(from him) and not very funny.
These examples are hilarious.

[marktwain]

HBO should show it. However, I am not surprized at Naomi Wolf hiding behind the skirts of a leftist court.

[dennisw]

What an uptight grouch. Sounds funny

[Cinnamon Girl]

I LOVE Ali G. I'll get on downloading that interview right now!

[jagrmeister]

If you're going to laugh here, be consistent. Ali G makes a lot of Republicans like James Baker look foolish too. Personally, I think the show is one of the funniest things on television.

[beckett]

Wolf the author of The Beauty Myth, a book whose major premise posited that beauty is an arbitrary social construct. The Beauty Myth is one of those books that made sense for about 15 minutes in the year it was published, and immediately thereafter fell into deep intellectual disrepute.

Feminist bookstores are chock full of such books.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

funny ping!

[contessa machiaveli]

ali G is da bomb.

[Cinnamon Girl]

For real.