Dear Internet -- This is 100% unalloyed horseshit. (More crazy Dr. Naomi Wolf)

[Nevilledog]

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@WFKARS
Dear Internet —

This is 100% unalloyed horseshit.

If children are not smiling at Naomi Wolf, it’s not that they’ve forgotten how, it’s that they’re trying to back away from her slowly without doing anything that might startle her.

❤️,
your friendly Twitter pediatrician

[mucifer]

1. I do notice my baby patients look at me like I'm nuts with my mask, I know that

can't be good for socialization.

But, they have their parents and relatives with them.

The low oxygenation is just bull crap and infuriating.

The socialization issues might be something we find from the youngest children not seeing our faces.

I don't know.

What I do know is it's most important we don't spread disease in a pandemic.

[Ocelot II]

2. Naomi Wolf has become weirder and weirder

since she worked as a political consultant for Clinton and Gore. She used to be controversial but now she's just nuts.

[Owl]

12. Exactly!

[txwhitedove]

3. WTH? Will be sure to check all grandkids at our March birthday brunch tomorrow.

Kids here in Texas were in and out of school and extracurricular sports, so I think that's bunk, but hey in crowded inner city maybe yes. Yes, I had 1st Pfizer shot and will wear a mask.

[MagickMuffin]

4. She hasn't been paying attention as this phenomena has been happening for decades

I smile at kids all the time, and have noticed that a lot of kids will not return the gesture. No biggie.

But I have heard about parents teaching their kids to not engage with strangers. Yep, that is his we become self isolated from one another. A simple smile can become an effective tool in reaching out to one another.

[torius]

5. Dr. Christiane Northrup too

Anti-mask, anti-vaxx, Covid denier, anti-mammogram, QAnon-er. She was highly respected before.

[tanyev]

7. Really. That is sad.

She’s been ‘woo friendly’ for a long time, but seemed to stay rooted in solid medical practices. Maybe it was all that tango dancing.

[Delphinus]

8. Yes,

she was a go to for many of my women friends for menopause. That was 15-years ago (or longer). I ran across some of her things last year that didn't sit well for me.

[Withywindle]

11. She's always played fast and loose with facts, tbh

She works up a good theory, and changes the facts to suit it.

There was a big controversy a few years ago over her book Outrages, about gay persecution in Victorian England and how the poet John Addington Symonds lived his life around it, and it could have been great. Except she completely misunderstood a legal term to mean that executions for gay sex were common in Victorian England. They weren't. At all. In fact, they didn't happen. Prison, yes. Capital punishment? No. When a historian pointed this out, she doubled down on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html

[demigoddess]

6. it depends on how much they trust strangers. Some kids know you don't

talk to strangers even if they smile at you. And some little kids are very good at sussing out someone's intentions, whether they are for good or ill.

[Mr.Bill]

9. I call it

Melania Syndrome.

[mountain grammy]

10. Nuts!