Paglia: "Hillary without tears"

Camille Paglia is perhaps the funniest, smartest, sexiest anti-feminist female alive today.

Read everything she has written!

A few gems -

* "Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."

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

* "Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist."

"Equal opportunity feminism, which I espouse, demands the removal of all barriers to woman's advance in the political and professional world — but not at the price of special protections for women which are infantilizing and anti-democratic." Paglia

scott

What she's saying, and i agree with her here is that...

These "missplaced protectors" who are mostly eunech type, desperate, baby boomer males..

These "missplaced protectors" think they are protecting women by giving them special protections, and special entitlements.

But in the long run these overprotections/entitlements are leading to more and more needy, emotionally infantile, desperate women.

Immediate gratification has a long term price to pay!!

"missplaced protectors"...who are mostly insecure, deperate, do anything for womens attention type males...Are not helping women at all!!

As cammile points out.."missplaced protectors" are hurting women in the long run by promoting womens irresponsible, infantalism...and feeding this behavior, naturally women get more infantile, deperate, and irresposible..

these what i like to call "half-men xcunbag enabling #$%*ing minions" are not just or mostly boomers. they come from all walks of life, and are from all generations.

that being said, imho the boomers are the ones now passing this groveling BS down to the others, mostly. i'm a boomer and my dad's generation actually had marriages that worked, for the most part. they (mostly gone now) never could wrap their heads around the idea that women would pervert the law to take advantage. but those old judges were the worst. they passed down the ideas that women were to be protected above all else and men were to support them no matter what. the original bottle the poison came from. most all hetero men want to believe marriage will work. soft kisses and ... well all the rest really does take your mind off divorce and the pain, injustice and poverty that follows.

hey, but you can't describe rock and roll to people who never heard electric guitars, right? ooooh oooh baby baby che bob che bop.

is it friday yet?

Paglia's good for MRA's in some ways, but she's not a saint. She has made more than a few statements indicating she has a negative or at least condescending opinion of men, regarding certain issues (like especially their psychology and sexuality - did you read "Sexual Personae"?). Also, she has an amazing ability to confuse the reader as to what her final stance is on certain issues.

I think it's because she herself is uncertain where she stands, for example on her own sexuality. The impression I get is that she's struggling with some serious internal issues while she is writing - like there is some kind of internal dialogue which causes her anxiety. She also writes like someone who perhaps suffers from a mild form of mania.

You can call this "psychologizing" if you want, but what matters is that the things mentioned above will obviously affect her opinions on gender issues, some of which are skewed and convoluted. It thus also affects people's perception of her.

-ax

If you think men establish their identities only with respect to their mothers, then I guess that means you're not in favor of shared parenting??
-ax