So where does Naomi Wolf get off thinking she can write a correspondingly bogus book claiming vaginas are distal lobes of women's brains?

This is not a "what about the menz" question, incidentally.  Going back to antiquity are already plenty of books and letters asserting pretty much that men's penises do much of our thinking for us.  Some of them even assert it proudly. Though others who make the case call it phallocentrism.

And it's not like plenty of others have written long and loud, again dating back to antiquity, making cases disturbingly similar to Wolf's!  Only for most of them it's not vaginas, it's "wombs."  And they didn't call it "depression" they called it "hysteria."

Sorry gang, we're not our genitals, m'kay?

This does not mean we don't or can't express ourselves through our genitals.  We can! But only in the same way we can express ourselves with our hands (see violins, typing, massage, fooseball) or our mouths (see arias, lectures, kissing, epicurian cuisine) our eyes, feet, etc.  But usually when we say an artist or athlete has a direct connection between his or her hands or bodies we recognize we're speaking metaphorically.

Heck, even when we say something coarse like "he lets his dick do the thinking" we still recognize we're speaking metaphorically.

Oh.

Oh! 

Back to that phallocentrism business for a second.  Wolf claims she and all women have a special, unique connections between vaginas and brains.  Unique erotic/sexual ones too, not just spiritual ones.  Ones that men couldn't possibly share.

It would be cool if she said women, being human beings, can discover (if they haven't already, um, noticed) a connection between mind and genitals that thanks to, oh, maybe, the bogus Two Rules of Desire women have traditionally been pressured to deny or repress in ways that men often have not.  But she didn't.  Which I think is a mistake.

I dunno.  Outside of harsh traditions of gender binding it's either a mundane observation or a really dumb one.  So what the heck?