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Occam's Banana
12-28-2013, 02:07 PM
Submitted for your perusal, delight, and/or infuriation ...

h/t Karen De Coster: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-amazing-camille-paglia/

The Amazing Camille Paglia

Bari Weiss has a fantastic article up on the Wall Street Journalon one of my favorite people: “Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579240022857012920).” This article is about all things Camille, from the societal neutering of males to upper-middle-class women being Pilates clones (love that comment) to her idolization of iconoclastic women who have been able to compete with men without castrating them.


Ms. Paglia argues that the softening of modern American society begins as early as kindergarten. “Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It’s oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys,” she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess. “They’re making a toxic environment for boys. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters.”

[...] 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.”


My favorite quote from the article: “Talking to her is like a mental CrossFit workout.”

FTA: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579240022857012920

Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues
The cultural critic on why ignoring the biological differences between men and women risks undermining Western civilization itself.

'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can't Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out of fashion, Americans undervalue manual labor, schools neuter male students, opinion makers deny the biological differences between men and women, and sexiness is dead. And that's just 20 minutes of our three-hour conversation.

When Ms. Paglia, now 66, burst onto the national stage in 1990 with the publishing of "Sexual Personae," she immediately established herself as a feminist who was the scourge of the movement's establishment, a heretic to its orthodoxy. Pick up the 700-page tome, subtitled "Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson," and it's easy to see why. "If civilization had been left in female hands," she wrote, "we would still be living in grass huts."

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... more at link ...

Danke
12-28-2013, 05:40 PM
Ya, read that book in 1992. Interesting.

Camille Paglia call the reaction to Duck Dynasty “utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/12/19/Openly-Gay-Camille-Paglia-Anti-Duck-Dynasty-Crusade-Utterly-Fascist-and-Utterly-Stalinist-PC-Culture

Suzanimal
12-28-2013, 05:53 PM
She's certainly an interesting lady. I agree with a lot of her opinions on feminism and "pussification" but why on earth did she vote for Obama?

BuddyRey
12-29-2013, 09:46 AM
Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Wendy McElroy are the only prominent feminists I like.

Anti Federalist
12-29-2013, 11:57 AM
Ms. Paglia argues that the softening of modern American society begins as early as kindergarten. “Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It’s oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys,” she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess. “They’re making a toxic environment for boys. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters.”

Government schools are child abuse.

Pericles
12-29-2013, 01:14 PM
She is correct