I love Paglia! Thank you. Will read later.
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The most interesting female intellectual since Ayn Rand.
She is a rare escapee from the herd of independent thinkers.
HOORAY Camille. Common sense is fading fast. Watch OUT!...here comes another shiny object.
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She’s a feminist but has been a bastion of reasonableness on the transgender issue, and her voice unfortunately has moral weight with liberals on this because she’s a lesbian.
Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West’s Cultural Decline, The Collapse of Cultures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDVuHsVwKs
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One of the most influential thinkers of our time.
I learned of Camille Paglia back in the 90’s due to militant feminists with whom I’d occasionally exchanged less than friendly words in a bar accusing me of being a fan, they absolutely hated her. So, I looked her up. She’s a lesbian who doesn’t hate men and loves western culture. She actually does have an open mind. She’s capable of being one of the worst critics if not the worst critic, of the left. Very clear thinker, very astute observer. Make no mistake, she’s no conservative, but she’s an occasional ally and not really an enemy, neutral at worst.
In the first page the author misidentifies a doctoral dissertation as a “thesis”, but we can let that pass. Overall a nice look back at Paglia’s time in the sun and an update on where she is now. Maybe a fiercely independent thinking lesbian isn’t to everyone’s taste, but as the article states one aspect of her appeal is the same as Trump’s, a willingness to stand up to political correctness and laugh in the face of attempted political correction. None of her opinions, even when you might disagree with them, are based on bull$hit. They’re reasoned and she’s willing to argue them without resorting to the usual leftist name calling.
If you do an FR keyword search, you’ll find a bunch of threads on Camille Paglia . Her anti-Hillary stuff is a hoot.
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I will definitely read this!
Thanks for posting this.
Limbaugh has always been a fan of Paglia.
Bump for later (when I can read it on my iPad on the back deck with a cigar).
I’ve followed Paglia for quite a few years. She’s an intellectual power house, though, she still hasn’t totally escaped the liberal plantation. She supported Bernie in the primaries and Jill Stein in the general.
It's so interesting you post this. Just this week I'd thought about her since I'm a Milo fan and his work and style, somewhat, remind me so much of Paglia. I've missed hearing her take on things.