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PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
9. Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing.
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 09:55 PM
Dec 2013

She's the OG of barfing up archaic assertions about women, men, and feminism, justifying them with sweeping, unverified statements, and dressing them up with $2 words, and calling it new. Her latest, "It's A Man's World, And It Always Will Be" is so absurd that it doesn't merit a response; it merits an edit.

Paglia doesn't exactly have a history of saying things that make any damn sense. Most recently, she yammered on about Katy Perry and Taylor Swift being awful because they are The Bad Kind Of Pop Star, then lauded "bootylicious, confident urban women" because they are The Good Kind of Pop Star. During the 2008 election, she compared Sarah Palin's incoherent and endless run-on sentence style of talking to listening to some pretty excellent jazz and declared her the savior of "third world feminism." She's endlessly weird about fetishizing women of color as paragons of hotness (that makes a cameo in the piece you're about to read) and repeatedly slapping the air around her for invisible, vague feminists who hate all men and want sex to end forever. Planet Paglia is one where white bitches are hating men and fun and the only people who can save it are movie versions of hyper sexualized women of color. It's refried bullshit is what it is.

http://jezebel.com/camille-paglia-please-see-me-after-class-1484324950

Paglia's been beating this drum for 20 years...she's a slightly better educated Ann Coulter alcibiades_mystery Dec 2013 #1
Second verse, same as the first. What is it, a seasonal disorder? Amazed at the RW shit lately. n/t freshwest Dec 2013 #12
Paglia is a feminist? Warpy Dec 2013 #2
Paglia, why not Ed Meese? BainsBane Dec 2013 #3
I've never been able to distinguish between Paglia and Coulter or Phyllis Shaffley Matariki Dec 2013 #4
she defends duck dynasty too. what else do you have seabeyond Dec 2013 #5
Paglia is a republican Kingofalldems Dec 2013 #6
Since we're going with RW arguments on gender roles, let's ramp it up BainsBane Dec 2013 #7
While in graduate school, I got to see Sarah chervilant Dec 2013 #27
Trash thread. Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #8
She just seems to be all over the map. She's been around for years; 7962 Dec 2013 #15
Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing. PeaceNikki Dec 2013 #9
Molly Ivins' takedown of Paglia is classic. PeaceNikki Dec 2013 #10
How I miss Molly BainsBane Dec 2013 #11
She didnt need a publicist to make her famous; she had george Bush! I hate cancer. 7962 Dec 2013 #16
Here's Molly's article on Paglia: 7962 Dec 2013 #19
If you knew about this, why did you quote her? BainsBane Dec 2013 #20
Good lord, this is "General Discussion". Dont we post comments from wackos all the time?? 7962 Dec 2013 #24
Usually they are posted to make fun of BainsBane Dec 2013 #25
I know; I never said it was a valid viewpoint, just thought she was kinda crazy, 7962 Dec 2013 #26
Far too many apparently serious statements have been posted here Ms. Toad Dec 2013 #33
I linked an html version in this subthread, too. PeaceNikki Dec 2013 #21
This post means that this thread was useful mythology Dec 2013 #22
Gracious. She seems awfully far to the right to me. Is this what we are discussing on DU, now: Squinch Dec 2013 #13
Quoting the "feminist" who called the Spur Posse date-rape gang "beautiful"? redqueen Dec 2013 #14
LOL OMG thank you for reminding me of this though redqueen Dec 2013 #17
... Gravitycollapse Dec 2013 #18
Defending stupid gender stereotypes and calling oneself a feminist? NuclearDem Dec 2013 #23
I haven't thought of her for years. rrneck Dec 2013 #28
Ahh. From the Murdoch Street Urinal. nt madinmaryland Dec 2013 #29
You've GOT to be kidding theHandpuppet Dec 2013 #30
Camille Paglia has either made a profession of trolling or is painfully stupid. LeftyMom Dec 2013 #31
Camille Paglia also thought Sarah Palin was really smart and Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty should Douglas Carpenter Dec 2013 #32
Could you please put "feminist" in quotation marks there? Ken Burch Jan 2014 #34
I've been scolded in the past for even having different capitalization in the headline! 7962 Jan 2014 #35
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