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Paglia Nails It AGAIN...This Time RE the Failed U

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Stand up, speak out, and refuse to be silenced! But identify the real source of oppression, which is embedded in the increasingly byzantine structure of higher education. Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control! I sent up a prophetic warning shot about this in my 1992 article, “The Corruption of the Humanities in the US,” which was published in London and is reprinted in my new book. The rapid, uncontrolled spread of overpaid administrators on college campuses over the past 30 years has marginalized the faculty, downgraded education, and converted students into marketing tools. Administrators are locked in a mercenary commercial relationship with tuition-paying parents and in a coercive symbiosis with intrusive regulators of the federal government. Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.
What I'm saying in Free Women, Free Men is that women can never be truly free until they let men too be free—which means that men have every right to determine their own identities, interests, and passions without intrusive surveillance and censorship by women with their own political agenda. For example, if there is an official Women's Center on the Yale University campus (which there is), then there should be a Men's Center too—and Yale men should be free to carry on and carouse there and say whatever the hell they want to each other, without snoops outside the door ready to report them to the totalitarian sexual harassment office
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...-on-elitist-garbage-and-contemporary-feminism

I love this woman, we see so much eye to eye and she simply refuses to shut up.
 
Does she own stock in DRUDGE REPORT? The only time I ever hear her name is when DRUDGE plugs her.
 
Does she own stock in DRUDGE REPORT? The only time I ever hear her name is when DRUDGE plugs her.

I suggest you widen or refine your information sourcing, as something has gone wrong.
 
Does she own stock in DRUDGE REPORT? The only time I ever hear her name is when DRUDGE plugs her.

I'm surprised you aren't a reader of Salon.
 
Stand up, speak out, and refuse to be silenced! But identify the real source of oppression, which is embedded in the increasingly byzantine structure of higher education. Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control! I sent up a prophetic warning shot about this in my 1992 article, “The Corruption of the Humanities in the US,” which was published in London and is reprinted in my new book. The rapid, uncontrolled spread of overpaid administrators on college campuses over the past 30 years has marginalized the faculty, downgraded education, and converted students into marketing tools. Administrators are locked in a mercenary commercial relationship with tuition-paying parents and in a coercive symbiosis with intrusive regulators of the federal government.

This is totally true, although "Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control!" is a slight clue that this women is a bit off.

Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.

And then unexpectedly, we hit full blown coo-coo for coco puffs. What the **** does this have to do with what she just got done saying? How the **** does that follow?
 
This is totally true, although "Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control!" is a slight clue that this women is a bit off.



And then unexpectedly, we hit full blown coo-coo for coco puffs. What the **** does this have to do with what she just got done saying? How the **** does that follow?

That, and her position that 'date rape' doesn't exist, since I know women that has happened to.
 
This is totally true, although "Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control!" is a slight clue that this women is a bit off.



And then unexpectedly, we hit full blown coo-coo for coco puffs. What the **** does this have to do with what she just got done saying? How the **** does that follow?

It follows the theme "the university has failed".
 
That, and her position that 'date rape' doesn't exist, since I know women that has happened to.

As I understand it her position is that women need to step up, to not be passive victims, and that sexual consent issues is are not solely the fault of the man. .

My position on date rape is partly based on my study of The Faerie Queen, as detailed in a full chapter in Sexual Personae: in 1590, the poet Edmund Spencer already sees that passive, drippy, naive women constantly get themselves into rape scenarios, while talented, intelligent, alert women, his warrior heroines, spot trouble coming and boldly trounce their male assailants. My feminism stresses courage, independence, self-reliance, and pride.

I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape. I loathe this thing about date rape. Have twelve tequilas at a fraternity party and a guy asks you to go up to his room, and then you're surprised when he assaults you? Most women want to be seduced or lured. The more you study literature and art, the more you see it. Listen to Don Giovanni. Read The Faerie Queene. Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle. Girls hurl themselves at guitarists, right down to the lowest bar band here. The guys are strutting. If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. Women have the right to freely choose and to say yes or no. Everyone should be personally responsible for what happens in life. I see the sexual impulse as egotistical and dominating, and therefore I have no problem understanding rape. Women have to understand this correctly and they'll protect themselves better. If a real rape occurs, it's got to go to the police. The business of having a campus grievance committee decide whether or not a rape is committed is an outrageous infringement of civil liberties. Today, on an Ivy League campus, if a guy tells a girl she's got great tits, she can charge him with sexual harassment. Chicken**** stuff. Is this what strong women do?
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia
 
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Whoa wow, powerful stuff, truth to power powerful stuff.

Wonder what her phone/address book looks like nowadays, see how many friends on the left she had to cross out for deserting her.

She knows how lucky she is to have had a benefactor who refuses to fire her ( University of the Arts in Philadelphia), that because she is a heretic she is generally unemployable at Universities because the feminists would not tolerate that....they of course are Headquartered at the university and have a lot of muscle there. Just a few months ago I was listening to her talk about that....youtube probably.

And really, at 70 years old (LIKE TRUMP!) she has nothing to lose at this point, she has decided to go out guns ablazing.
 
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This is totally true, although "Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control!" is a slight clue that this women is a bit off.



And then unexpectedly, we hit full blown coo-coo for coco puffs. What the **** does this have to do with what she just got done saying? How the **** does that follow?

Unfortunately, in the last few years, she'd been suffering from Dennis Miller Syndrome.

Once insightful, with honest observations based in humor and wit, but now rather beholden to emotion-based hyperbole and, frankly, predictable and boring.

She's always got to be angry at something.
 
Unfortunately, in the last few years, she'd been suffering from Dennis Miller Syndrome.

Once insightful, with honest observations based in humor and wit, but now rather beholden to emotion-based hyperbole and, frankly, predictable and boring.

She's always got to be angry at something.

Are you claiming this is a unusual or a bad thing never mind that I dont take her that way at all.

She is also one of the most astute observers around.
 
My favorite CamPags anecdote:

Cam had a book on the NYT best seller list at the time she encountered Pat Buchanan at an NYC celebrity party.

Buchanan approached CamPags & said: - Congratulations on your best seller. Who wrote it for you? -
Not to be outdone, CamPags replied: - I'm glad you enjoyed it Pat. Who read it to you? -
 
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