Camille Paglia is/was on our side in the struggle against inequality and misandry, and she has founded her own sub genre within the feminist movement "Amazon Feminism." Im sure that there will be mixed opinions on her views, but one thing is clear, this lady is too intelligent, honest, and bold to leave the feminist establishment unscathed. I think we may well be in debt to her accomplishments, so we should pay homage.

Check out her interview on Charlie Rose!


The first 23 minutes are irrelevant so just skip them.

Interesting, but the sound quality is subpar.
She speaks like a speed freak.
I maybe to accustomed to the southern drawl.

Ah, Camille. I love the sound of machine guns in the morning.

Try reading 'Sexual Persona' and you will find that she dictated it at 120 decibels.

She speaks fast and loud (but with beautiful pronuciation) to get her voice heard. As an up and coming Professor she was attacked by feminazis with heavy artillery and it may have damaged her ears. But not her vocal chords.

Some Paglia quotes from Sexual Peronae and Vamps & Tramps:


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

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. . . . The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

I accept decadence as a complex historical mode. In late phases, maleness is always in retreat.

Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.

Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials. But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome. Men's egotism, so disgusting in the talentless, is the source of their greatness as a sex.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free comtemporary women than feminism itself.

In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we [women] are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.

Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.

Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

All of us emerge from the body of a mystical female giant. Boys are swamped in the female realm. Note how mothers take male children into the women's toilets: the boys are officially neuter and still part of the mother's body. To progress to manhood, boys must leave the women's world behind. In tribal cultures, men may kidnap a boy, slash his body with knives, throw him into a pit, or abandon him in the woods, cruel rites of passage still evident in the brutal, sometimes homicidal hazing of modern fraternities, which flourishes despite every effort to ban it.

Because boys lack a biological marker like menstruation, to be man is to be not female. Contemporary feminism called this "misogyny," but it was wrong. Masculine identity is embattled and fragile. In the absence of opportunity for heroic physical action, as in the modern office world, women's goodwill is crucial for preserving the male ego, which requires, alas, daily maintenance. It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.

Germaine Greer says there are no great women because they have mutilated egos. I say great art only comes from mutilated egos.


http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/paglia.html

Those quotes are rather sharp. I want to read more of her work.

Damn it, but it's been taken offline now!

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I think that's being rather charitable. 'Still shivering in caves' would be more realistic.

That said, I do admire Paglia's honesty in acknowledging the 'positive' contributions of men historically, and that all of womens shortcomings and failures can't solely be laid at the feet of patriarchy.