Angelina Jolie Essay By Naomi Wolf Harper’s Bazaar July 2009
Men want her, women want to be her. Feminist essayist Naomi Wolf examines the secret of Angelina Jolie’s success — and explains why “women desire her” — in the July issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
“Women admire Angelina Jolie, but that would hardly stop the presses. Polls also show that if women—not just lesbian and bisexual women but straight women—had to choose a female lover, they would want to sleep with Angelina Jolie. In other words, women both identify with her and desire her,” Wolf writes.
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On June 9th 2009, Queen bee wrote:
I absolutely ADORE Angelina…..and Ms. Wolfe is right….I am a straight woman, but Angie is gorgeous and smart and talented….so I might go for one night with her!
On June 9th 2009, lulu wrote:
What a woman! So glad someone FINALLY wrote a NON-snarky article about her.
Keep up the good work Ange!
On June 9th 2009, johnjohn wrote:
This woman is HOT! NO ONE can play the sexy Femme-Fetal like Angie! Brad lucked out!
I’m looking foward to her new movie next year!
On June 9th 2009, alia wrote:
I read the article online, and I was impressed. Naomi Wolfe really articulated my feelings about how unique Ms. Jolie actually is, and how inspired I am as a woman by how much she has accomplished….and with NO apologies! She has evolved as a woman, and despite the negativity that she has been bombarded with, she continues to raise her family, be a partner to Brad Pitt, and do her film work and humanitarian work with true dignity. I also admire the way Brad and Angie conduct themselves in the public forum. They don’t frequent parties, or prance around scantily clad on beaches or bars. They do their promotion work for their film, or for humanitarian causes, and are seen traveling and taking care of their kids. God has truly blessed them, and I hope he continues to bless and protect them. What a great woman.
On June 9th 2009, AT wrote:
Sorry but personally I find Angelina Jolie repulsive. Yes, she has done many good deeds in her lift, but I can’t help but feel it doesn’t completely overshadow the bad/weird things she has done in her life (vials of blood etc.) and stealing someone’s husband (and yes I know a man can’t be stolen if he doesn’t want to be but still)………….. and sorry as a straight woman, I don’t find her attractive at all.
On June 19th 2009, Virginia Postrel wrote:
The article demonstrates glamour at work, telling us more about Naomi Wolf than Angelina Jolie: http://www.deepglamour.net/deep_glamour/2009/06/naomi-wolf-and-the-phenomenology-of-angelina-jolie.html
On June 24th 2009, Courtney wrote:
My respect for Naomi Wolf has fell after reading this article. Just who is Angelina Jolie and what good things has she really done that any billionaire move star could not do. This magazine is ignorant elitist schmut.
On July 2nd 2009, Angelina Jolie Has Huge Ugly Fish Shaped Lips! wrote:
Angelina Jolie is one of the ugliest celebrities or women I have ever seen!
I can’t understand how anyone can find her remotely attractive at all!
She has abnormally huge lips that are shaped like a Bass or trout fish especially her lower lip! Every time I see her face online I have to click it of I can’t even stand to look at her!
I’m not alone either I have found many other people including many heterossexual men saying exactly the same thing!
One guy posted a picture of 2 fish and said Angelina looks just like this and he said at least with other actresses you don’t need a fishing license to watch their films!
Another guy on another site said how can anyone find her huge sausage lips attractive, and another guy said sausage lips? You mean they are like this, and he posted a picture of a fish with an eek emoticon.
On another message board many people were saying these things about her too and a woman said that her husband said she looks like she should be thrown back into the ocean.Many men said the last time they saw lips like hers they were on the end of a fishook!
Another guy said he always found Angelina unattractive with big over-sized frog lips! And another guy on another message board said he always thought she was ugly and that she looks like freaking Howard the Duck! Another woman said her husband thinks she’s ugly and he calls her anus mouth. One guy said Jon Voight doesn’t make pretty babies sorry.
Also there are many web sites discussing and showing her before and after plastic surgeries,her nose jobs,her cheeck implants,etc and someone said that even though she’s had a lot of plastic surgery it didn’t help because she still looks like a fish. And on the same site a guy Tim said,really ugly woman with a skeleton body and a fish face!
Elizabeth Taylor,Lauren Bacall,Milla Jovovich and Jaclyn Smith(who I think is the most famous beautiful woman ever!) , Hallie Berry and Marilyn Monroe all had/have full lips but they weren’t abnormally huge and they all had very pretty shaped lips not ugly trout shaped lips!
Scarlet Johanson,Jessica Alba and Liv Tyler all have lips that are too big,but they still have pretty looking mouths because their lips have a very pretty shape not fish shaped like *UGLY* Angelina!
And a woman on Yahoo! Answers said she’s bisexual and she finds her very *unattractive*!
On July 2nd 2009, Angelina Jolie Has Huge Ugly Fish Shaped Lips! wrote:
And also the only other people I have ever seen with big ugly fish shaped lips like hers are an actor on the soap thats going off the air, Guiding Light and he plays a religious Father, and the actress who is in her 70’s Carolyn Conwell who played Paul’s mother on The Young and The Restless from 1980-2004 and they are ugly too and I could never stand to look at them either!
A guy recently said on nbcnework.com that he always thought Angelina was ugly with her big catfish lips, and he said she looks like the fish he used to catch in the lake when he was a kid!
On a site askville 2 married men said they think Angelina is the ugliest celebrity and one of these men said that she has lips like a Kissing Gourami fish!
And on another site where they showed before and after plastic surgery Angelina had including an obvious nose job, a guy said really ugly woman with a skeleton body and a fish face. And another poster said she had plenty of plastic surgery but it didn’t help because she still looks like a fish! And another poster said that there is nothing wrong with big lips but her lips aren’t pretty and are way too big, and shaped like an as*****
* Exactly!*
And writer Timothy Sexton said in an online article about why he doesn’t consider Hallie Berry a great beauty, he said he thinks she’s just average and that his wife is 10 times prettier,that he doesn’t think Angelina Jolie is average looking but plain ugly!
And a guy who runs a site on geocities called,80 Most Beautiful women, and he adds more famous and as famous beautiful women doesn’t include ugly fish-face Angelina and he said he never found her attractive at all!
On July 2nd 2009, Angelina Jolie Has Huge Ugly Fish Shaped Lips! wrote:
Oh and Harper’s Bazaar has never been a feminist publication in any way!
And Naomi Wolf is a zillion times better looking than Angelina but then again any woman who isn’t an ugly fish face like her is too!
On December 22nd 2009, India wrote:
I find it fascinating how Hollywood and the media can basically invent a person’s life and it can morph into something so dramatic and exciting by the tip of a pen.
I am neither impressed or unimpressed with Ms. Jolie’s life; I believe this is just Ms. Jolie’s 15 minutes to shine like other actresses before her that we fell in love with or fawned over.
For those that remember Ms. Mia Farrow. Ms. Jolie’s life seems to me to be a mirror image of Ms. Farrow life; a very talented actress and outstanding career, a rainbow family, a activist and humanitarian, and very much in love with her soul mate and a very sucessful director Woody Allen.