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The madness of the matriarchy.

A WHILE AGO, writing about Valerie Solanas, the madwoman who shot Andy Warhol, I proposed that left-wing thinking is fundamentally an all-purpose conspiracy theory comprising numerous mini-conspiracies, “the patriarchy” being a favourite of the feminists. And lo, it has come to pass that one of the matriarchy has confirmed it.

“Sometimes conspiracies are real: the self-replicating power structure of patriarchy is one of them,” says Sarah Ditum in The New Statesman, writing of Naomi Wolf, whose credibility now lies in a pile of sputtering wreckage. Wolf’s bizarre claims that the Scottish referendum was rigged, that Obama is using the ebola outbreak to militarise Africa (you seen the size of Africa, Naomi?) and that the Isis beheading videos were not filmed by Isis (a minor point given that IS/Isis/Isil are slaughtering thousands of people), suggest a certain slippage in her grip on reality.

That little sliver of patriarchy is about all Ditum can salvage from the embarrassments of Wolf’s pronouncements, but it shows that the dial of the committed progressive is permanently set to 11 on the conspiracy scale.

You have to be choosey about your conspiracies so you don’t come across as a fruitcake but you can’t go wrong with the good old patriarchy.

Michael Blackburn.

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