What is your view on Camille Paglia?

slipkid223 · 2021-12-25T18:41:57+00:00

"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."
Camille Paglia

TracyMorganFreeman · 2021-12-25T19:38:32+00:00

She identifies are a radical feminist, and frequently maligns most modern feminist dogma. This is especially surprising since she's a lesbian

MalkavianScum · 2021-12-25T20:40:33+00:00

She's always called herself a feminist but is remarkably distinct even from the harpies of her own generation. She's generally pretty based. Feminism was all the rage back in her day and who knows which of the six million definitions of feminism she subscribes to. It's a terrible movement but is pervasive enough for reasonable people such as Paglia to identify themselves with it for one reason or another.

Uniqueiamjustjules · 2021-12-25T21:03:45+00:00

Really brilliant lady. I was introduced to her as a college student when she did a commentary track for the movie Basic Instinct.

She's an older Italian-American who really believes in the value of gender roles. She's has been hyper critical of the feminist movement. She sees the flaws and stated them loudly. She's been somewhat silo'd over the past decade, but they can't disavow her because she was in the original cohort of women who came up in the popular movement.

One of the things she pointed out was the contradiction between having equal rights/authority, but wanting heightened protection - when she was at one of the many New York Universities she supported the women students taking on equal authority and responsibility (including personal responsibility for safety).

She even got into it with colleagues in higher ed, arguing that hormones and biology do, in fact, impact behavior and socialization.

She's changed genders late in life and I think she still goes by her original name - but she's critical of the recent wave of transgenderism arguing that it's fueled by a lot more psycho-and sociological situations than the modern discourse wants to take on.

This old Firing Line debate between the various idols of the feminist movement arguing for and against, is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDs966SDgVY&ab\_channel=FiringLinewithWilliamF.Buckley%2CJr.

ZimbaZumba · 2021-12-26T15:55:06+00:00

She is brilliant and a thorn in the side of dogmatic feminists.

Title	What is your view on Camille Paglia?
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Date	December 25, 2021 5:45 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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