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Sorry, Camille Paglia: Feminism Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Men (Just weird)
Time Magazine ^ | December 18, 2013 | Cristina Page

Posted on 01/04/2014 6:17:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Men today are what feminism has always pined for and worked toward—and the happy surprise is that men wouldn't want to go back either.

Camille Paglia’s perennial skewering of feminism is now so near tradition it deserves its own greeting card. This year, in her article entitled, “It’s a man’s world and it always will be,” Paglia argues that men have and always will be the shapers of society while women have and always will play only a supporting role. She even claims men are responsible for women’s liberation—assigning them near full credit because they invented “labor-saving devices” that “liberated women from daily drudgery.” While bestowing this honor, she makes no peep about the likes of Margaret Sanger or the well-known “women’s movement” and their role in saving women from the daily drudgery of, say, unintended pregnancy. While neither is delightful, when wagering on which women needed more freedom from—unchecked pregnancy or manual dish cleaning—my money is on Sanger.

Paglia claims that feminism is set on “stereotyping, belittling or demonizing men.” Yet the research on men suggest their lives have improved immeasurably as a result of feminism. By all appearances, feminism has been the lead designer of the modern man who is not only the product of feminism but arguably the greatest beneficiary of it, too.

Women’s ascent into the workplace has not diminished men but has freed up space in the family for a more involved father—a position more fulfilling than any at the office....

(Excerpt) Read more at ideas.time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; feminism; margaretsanger; paglia
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1 posted on 01/04/2014 6:17:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More feminism porn for my reading pleasure. Do you have like three computer screens on your desk? I appreciate the dirty work you do scouring the internets for us.


2 posted on 01/04/2014 6:20:58 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cristina, put down the pipe and get yourself some help.


3 posted on 01/04/2014 6:21:57 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: ToastedHead

This time it’s dressed up in “thoughtful prose” but really no different than the PIV column. The two authors (if, indeed they’re not one in the same) would probably like each other, if they’re not already friends.


4 posted on 01/04/2014 6:24:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"...By all appearances, feminism has been the lead designer of the modern man who is not only the product of
feminism but arguably the greatest beneficiary of it, too..."

5 posted on 01/04/2014 6:24:07 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Feminism Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Men for easy sex.
6 posted on 01/04/2014 6:25:39 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time magazine - whaddaya expect?


7 posted on 01/04/2014 6:26:21 AM PST by Ken522
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first comment at the site is a pleasure to read. He eviscerates this bimbo.


8 posted on 01/04/2014 6:27:36 AM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paglia is correct. Feminism destroyed public education for our sons.


9 posted on 01/04/2014 6:28:16 AM PST by abclily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author praises the murder of children.


10 posted on 01/04/2014 6:28:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
CAMILLE PAGLIA: WAR ON MEN DESTROYING AMERICAN CULTURE

or as Rush says, the Chickifcation of Men.


11 posted on 01/04/2014 6:29:42 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The other one was more stimulating. A first generation feminazi.

I’ll give Paglia credit for creating an attention getting niche for herself.


12 posted on 01/04/2014 6:33:12 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My first wife wanted to be a man (in the figurative not literal sense). It was seven years of marital misery for me. I ditched her and found a woman who is happy being a woman. It has been eleven years of marital bliss for us. Meanwhile, wife 1 remarried, got divorced again after two years and has been by herself for the five years since. Just sayin’.


13 posted on 01/04/2014 6:33:29 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A 50% divorce rate, trending upward illegitimacy rate, 1 million plus abortions (50% male), an increasingly single mom welfare state, “affirmative action”/quotas for females, angry bitter unmarried females, “gay marriage” populations declines, save for immigration (and that’s another controversy) . . . yeah, men are so much better for it all, as is society.


14 posted on 01/04/2014 6:34:20 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Merry Christmas Everyone . . .)
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Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24

"feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." - Rush


15 posted on 01/04/2014 6:35:25 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rush said this decades ago. (IIRC, it’s a chapter in one of his books.) ISo it deserves thoughtful consideration when Paglia brings it up? Whatever... I’m glad she did; it’s true.


16 posted on 01/04/2014 6:36:09 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: KevinB

“My first wife wanted to be a man (in the figurative not literal sense).”

I walk a very fine line being the breadwinner. It makes economic sense for me to work one job and him stay home with the kids. He could work two, and we’d never see him, and still end up with less. I am always mindful of this, in every aspect of life. He has complete and total control over the money. I ask him for cash when I need it. I hope he doesn’t feel this way about me.


18 posted on 01/04/2014 6:41:38 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As always, the undereducated feminist class has no knowledge of the great John Stuart Mill. He was the father of women’s rights.

How dare she drag out that 20th Century hag, Margaret Sanger. Susan B. Anthony would have been horrified at this racist, abortion-loving beast.


19 posted on 01/04/2014 6:41:46 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: raybbr

Impressive; it reads like a Supreme Court Justice’s dissenting opinion!

He must have had that in the can and ready to go.


20 posted on 01/04/2014 6:42:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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