The controversial feminist Ca(r)mille Paglia

[Tuesday Afternoon]

January 15, 2014
The third wave of feminism brought in many new feminists with controversial opinions on the state of the world. Today we will be looking at Camille Paglia. Paglia is known for her strong views on modern culture and feminism. Margaret Wente, Canadian “The Globe and Mail” columnist calls her, "a writer in a category of her own... a feminist who hates affirmative action; an atheist who respects religion" and "a Democrat who thinks her party doesn't get it."

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Paglia graduated from Binghamton University in 1964. She was class valedictorian but also prided herself on being controversial and a prankster. Camille Paglia went on to do a graduate degree at Yale University where she also boasts of being the only open lesbian there between 1968 and 1972. Paglia disagreed with Rita Mae Brown another feminist of her time. However, she was inspired by Susan Sontag, a writer filmmaker and political activist. Since Paglia was herself a radical feminist she appreciated Sontag’s also radical challenge of male dominance.

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In an article written in The Wall Street Journal by Bari Weiss she is quoted as saying, “Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of America's brawny industrial base, leaves many men with "no models of manhood," she says. “Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now." The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. No surprise, she is an avid listener. The energy and enthusiasm "inspires me as a writer," she says, adding: "If we had to go to war," the callers "are the men that would save the nation."

She goes on to say, “By denying the role of nature in women's lives, she argues, leading feminists created a "denatured, antiseptic" movement that "protected their bourgeois lifestyle" and falsely promised that women could "have it all." And by impugning women who chose to forgo careers to stay at home with children, feminists turned off many who might have happily joined their ranks… More important, Ms. Paglia says, if the women's movement wants to be taken seriously again, it should tackle serious matters, like rape in India and honor killings in the Muslim world, that are "more of an outrage than some woman going on a date on the Brown University campus."

more at link:
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-controversial-feminist-carmille-paglia-part-1

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-controversial-feminist-carmille-paglia-part-2

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-controversial-feminist-carmille-paglia-conclusion


wiki bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia

[Warren Stupidity]

1. She would be more controversial with her name spelled correctly.

Although her right wing politics were/are, as far as I can tell, an act consciously constructed to gain media attention.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. I left it that way because that was the title. Thank you.

[ismnotwasm]

3. She's not an idiot

But she's like the feminist version of Ann Coulter. I read some of her stuff and was like WTF is this self hating shit? I read some more and realized she would have got along famously with Ayn Rand

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. I thought she said something brilliant one time but,

I was nineteen and doing drugs at the time

[ismnotwasm]

9. Heh!

[sufrommich]

5. Her schtick is to inflame feminists,like Ann Coulters is to

inflame liberals,she gets attention for it and it pays well. Oh and she's a big fan of Sarah Palin,so she's got that going for her.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. yep.

[geek tragedy]

7. she's a professional gender troll nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. hey -

as a "gender traitor" .... the jokes just write themselves

[redqueen]

10. Oh yeah, I totally believe she's a radical feminist.

TOTALLY.

leaves many men with "no models of manhood," she says. “Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now." The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. No surprise, she is an avid listener. The energy and enthusiasm "inspires me as a writer," she says, adding: "If we had to go to war," the callers "are the men that would save the nation."

I mean, who else but a radical feminist could so accurately bemoan the modern state of so-called 'masculinity'.

[ismnotwasm]

11. You know I'm reading an awesome book

About nations, nationalism and gender in the 19th century. Fascinating stuff-- dealing with a variety of colonized countries and rebellions, where woman participated, the idea of "woman" was used, woman fought, or otherwise participated, the racisms involved (the 'feminization' of males under colonial rule) but then were "written out" of history. Pretty standard woman's study stuff actually.

I bring it up as an example of that idiot not bothering to learn ANY gendered history whatsoever to dumbshit out that bad