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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Camile Paglia on Hillary's Sleepwalking [View all]PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)7. Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing.
She's the OG of barfing up archaic assertions about women, men, and feminism, justifying them with sweeping, unverified statements, and dressing them up with $2 words, and calling it new. Her latest, "It's A Man's World, And It Always Will Be" is so absurd that it doesn't merit a response; it merits an edit.
Paglia doesn't exactly have a history of saying things that make any damn sense. Most recently, she yammered on about Katy Perry and Taylor Swift being awful because they are The Bad Kind Of Pop Star, then lauded "bootylicious, confident urban women" because they are The Good Kind of Pop Star. During the 2008 election, she compared Sarah Palin's incoherent and endless run-on sentence style of talking to listening to some pretty excellent jazz and declared her the savior of "third world feminism." She's endlessly weird about fetishizing women of color as paragons of hotness (that makes a cameo in the piece you're about to read) and repeatedly slapping the air around her for invisible, vague feminists who hate all men and want sex to end forever. Planet Paglia is one where white bitches are hating men and fun and the only people who can save it are movie versions of hyper sexualized women of color. It's refried bullshit is what it is.
http://jezebel.com/camille-paglia-please-see-me-after-class-1484324950
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Congratulations on getting birther bigot Camille Paglia in your corner, Bernie people
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#3
As I've said before, life is wonderful in Hillary Land, where all puffing up of Hillary is "good"
highprincipleswork
Jun 2016
#30
"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts." -Paglia
PeaceNikki
Jun 2016
#32
Of course she doesn't. She has never said a positive thing about women or to women. Nt
seabeyond
Jun 2016
#36
Right leaning, libertarian assholes should get a chilly response on a Democratic site.
PeaceNikki
Jun 2016
#48