Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can’t touch Donald Trump

Salon ^ | May 19, 2016 | Camille Paglia

[BunnySlippers]

Bump

[Bogie]

Plus, it slows you down when you have to check with the man behind the curtain, every time you need a new talking point.

[RedWulf]

Fascinating article.

[lee martell]

This article is well written and very entertaining with vivid imagery. Look at how she compares and contrasts the two main candidates and their campaigning style. Spot on!

[InterceptPoint]

Pure Camille. Brilliant. Nearly unreadable. Leftist to the core.

[IDFbunny]

I would like Trump more like Captain Kirk than a buccaneer.

[bluejean]

“Trump is like a raffish buccaneer, leaping about the rigging like the breezy Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn, while Hillary is the stiff, sequestered admiral of a bullion-laden armada of Spanish galleons, a low-in-the-water easy mark as they creak and sway amid the rolling swells.”

What a terrific description! Very amusing article.

[Michael.SF.]

Well written?

Maybe you can translate this for me and I am sure others:

smash-the-cucumber-frames style

[lee martell]

That was the only analogy I didn’t get. No idea.

[spokeshave]

while Hillary is the stiff, sequestered admiral of a bullion-laden armada of Spanish galleons, a low-in-the-water easy mark as they creak and sway amid the rolling swells.

Hillary meets Admiral Lord Nelson

Loose Cannon and all

At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson devised a tactical device that enabled him with only 27 ships (and smaller) to defeat the 33 larger ships of the Spanish Armada.

As well as his ships being more maneuverable...his cannons, being smaller were more easily aimed for best effect.

[Fai Mao]

Camille writes in a passive academic voice and uses an academic vocabulary with very long, highly modified sentences as do many people with a professional background in the Liberal Arts. It can be an acquired taste.

But, yeah, if you are used to reading that sort of thing she is funny. She is a rare breed, an honest leftist who doesn’t deal in platitudes and ad hominem attacks.

[Bobalu]

Cucumber frames are generally wispy trellis frames used for raising cucumbers.

Being so flimsy and weak I suppose she meant it would be rather oafish behavior to smash such things flat.

IMO a strange and very obscure analogy.

[Pelham]

There’s a 1932 British novel that uses the phrase ‘smash-the-cucumber-frames’ to describe one of the characters.

https://tinyurl.com/jqbm5sk

[Neanderthal]

"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth and extended the growing season, so were crucial to the supply of "Mediterranean" summer vegetables in Britain, before the age of horticultural polythene and container-loads of tomatoes crossing the English Channel."

http://www.oldandinteresting.com/victorian-garden-frames.aspx

[JennysCool]

a man with no prior political experience and little perceptible patience

We need to change this meme once and for all. Trump has PLENTY of "political experience," being on the citizen's side of onerous federal, state and local laws and ordinances for more than 40 years. He has PLENTY of "political experience." He's had enough of it. And that in a nutshell is why he's running for President.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“She is a rare breed, an honest leftist who doesn’t deal in platitudes and ad hominem attacks.”

I dfon’t agree with her, but I kinda enjoy reading her stuff.

[angry elephant]

This article is well written and very entertaining with vivid imagery. Look at how she compares and contrasts the two main candidates and their campaigning style. Spot on!

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But we have been told by Shillary’s friend Ed Rendell that the majority of women in this country are not good looking and all the ugly women will vote for Shillary.

[CorporateStepsister]

Political experience is largely ornamental. Our politicos don’t have much education beyond being a lawyer or have a legal background academically and frankly none of them have built anything other than seniority.

[Drew68]

Blame for this fiasco falls squarely upon the New York Times editors who delegated to two far too young journalists, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, the complex task of probing the glitzy, exhibitionistic world of late-twentieth-century beauty pageants, gambling casinos, strip clubs, and luxury resorts. Neither Barbaro, a 2002 graduate of Yale, nor Twohey, a 1998 graduate of Georgetown University, had any frame of reference for sexual analysis aside from the rote political correctness that has saturated elite American campuses for nearly 40 years.

Who else saw this? Brilliant!