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By: Crazy Camille « his vorpal sword

Crazy Camille « his vorpal sword — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:31:47 +0000

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By: katlyn

katlyn — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:56:26 +0000

Camille Paglia said women couldn’t make great art because we can’t commit rape.

Ostrova, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but when the fuck did she say that? I don’t think she could be any more atrocious.

By: Camille's Above Your Heads

Camille's Above Your Heads — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:24:14 +0000

Ditto to #45 and then some. Camille came of age in a different era than most people reading her today. Although nominally belonging to a sexual minority, she insists on self-reliance which she learned pre-Stonewall, pre-NOW, pre-HRC — because it pre-existed all these “movement” organizations and pre-fabricated opinions and party lines that are current today.

By: wriggles

wriggles — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:47:52 +0000

I enjoy reading Camille Paglia I like some of her phrase making, even if I don’t always agree with who she applies it to. She really makes me think and try to analyse what she is saying, she rarely winds me up if she does, I still am able to think about what she is getting at before I agree or disagree with it.
I find her crush on Madonna to be quite touching actually, especially as I don’t get it, we are rarely at our best when those feelings are unrequited. I like the way she puts her judgement on the line by offering an alternative instead of just vitriol. I enjoy her energy as well, as for her ego we’ve all got one and I think frankly that a lot of us protest too much on that one. She doesn’t play the coquette pretending to a ‘niceness’ she clearly doesn’t feel. She seems to me to actually say something, I’ve yet to get the feeling that she rants pointlessly even if I disagree.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:12:24 +0000

How exactly does a rape apologist get tagged as a feminist?

By: Isabel

Isabel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:22:22 +0000

Madonna probably avoided Paglia because Paglia was acting all stalkerish about Madonna.

OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY. Paglia is freaking obsessed with Madonna. We read an essay by her in my contemporary US history course in 11th grade and, honestly, the points she made about Madonna (of whom I am a fan) were pretty decent, but the essay suffered from two major drawbacks:
1) her needless namecalling, like, Camille sweetie, your criticism of the mainstream feminist establishment (which often did, in my opinion, misinterpret Madonna, though they had their reasons for doing so) would carry a lot more weight if you didn’t comport yourself like a five-year-old in the process (“twits”? really?); and
2) her BLATANTLY GIGANTIC CRUSH on Madonna, especially creepy drooling over Madonna’s erotic curves, like, ENOUGH ALREADY, WE GET THAT YOU THINK SHE IS HOT. It was weird and unprofessional and just… unnecessary. Ugh.

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:10:49 +0000

I know that I should be asking what the fuck is wrong with Camile Paglia, but really, what the fuck is (was) wrong with Normal Mailer?

He was an upper-class Jewish man who spent his entire life trying to prove that he was actually a working-class WASP. Pretty much everything he did in his life was a performance to show that he was a tough guy, not the effete intellectual that he actually was. The Executioner's Song is pretty good, though it's best read in conjunction with Mikal Gilmore's Shot In the Heart. Mailer was a crappy novelist but a decent journalist. Plus I suspect that, in Gary Gilmore, he found someone even more fucked up than he was, and it scared him a little.

By: ostrova

ostrova — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:57:09 +0000

Camille Paglia said women couldn’t make great art because we can’t commit rape. Norman Mailer announced “I am a White Negro.” Twin souls.

By: alsojill

alsojill — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:35:22 +0000

Who was he on GG?

Himself.

He was eating in the Dragonfly Inn when Sookie realized she was pregnant for the second time. The episode is titled “Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant!”

By: kate

kate — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:34:50 +0000

Thanks Holly for your description of Johnston and criticism of Mailer. I’ve learned more about Mailer from feminist blogs in one week than I knew in all the 43 years of my only partially educated life.

I started reading, awhile ago, “The Naked and the Dead” having heard it was some great literature. I had to put it down before going too far beyond the first two pages. Reading sex from a man’s perspective, especially when the receiver is described as nothing more than a china vessel, gets old quickly.

I agree with Meowser, who are the sheltered morons who keep Paglia published and paid? Why? Last I knew, literate women aren’t that rare. She’s a fool.