Publisher cancels Naomi Wolf's book 'Outrages' over inaccuracies (Feminist Propaganda Fail)

lostapwbm · 2019-10-23T14:10:54+00:00

The US edition of Oxford-educated author Naomi Wolf’s new book Outrages is being pulped after a number of major errors were discovered.

Wait for it...

Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalisation of Love is based on a PhD thesis that Wolf wrote in 2015, in which she claimed to have found examples of “several dozen executions” of men convicted of sodomy in Britain.

Wait for it...

However, in an embarrassing interview with BBC radio host Matthew Sweet – himself an author – which took place in May, it was pointed out that Wolf had, perhaps understandably misinterpreted the term “Death recorded” to mean executed, when in fact it means the opposite: that the judge abstained from pronouncing the death sentence and the prisoner was pardoned.

BLAM!

“I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened,” he said.

Records show that the last executions for sodomy were of James Pratt and John Smith, in November 1835.

OOF!

Wolf’s UK publisher Virago has corrected the mistakes and the book is still on sale in the UK. However, the New York Times reports that Wolf’s US publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has now cancelled the book’s entire US run.

The absolute state of 'feminist' research.

boringcarpets · 2019-10-23T14:57:07+00:00

caught out live on air

andejoh · 2019-10-23T16:32:15+00:00

"The US edition of Oxford-educated author Naomi Wolf’s new book Outrages is being pulped after a number of major errors were discovered.

Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalisation of Love is based on a PhD thesis that Wolf wrote in 2015"

They should probably check to see if her thesis was inaccurate as well. They might want to look at who reviewed it as well.

sakura_drop · 2019-10-23T15:23:37+00:00

Hopefully the start of a trend.

Egalitarianwhistle · 2019-10-24T03:12:19+00:00

I am actually embarrassed for her.

Title	Publisher cancels Naomi Wolf's book 'Outrages' over inaccuracies (Feminist Propaganda Fail)
Author	lostapwbm
Upvotes	49
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Date	October 23, 2019 2:07 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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