Posted on 09/09/2008 7:28:42 PM PDT by rface
Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment......
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Long column - but great to read.
I just posted one paragraph from the 2nd page.......
The Democrats have lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped.
The Democrats have lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped.
not to mention the double vision :)
My impression too. Hurrucane Camille and Sarah-cuda...quite a combination!
“Hurricane” (dang)
Paglia can write, she’s up there with Mark Steyn, I may not agree with her on some things but her style is excellent
and like Steyn she has a way with words...
But did she have to make such awful crap music in the process?? Oh I get it, she's a political/social icon, who cares if the music sucks?
And another thing, aren’t most of Madonna’s audience fags? The men in Madonna’s audience want to BE Madonna.
The Sarah Palin phenomena is much bigger than anyone knows. It changes everything. McCain is a genius.
Only someone completely blinded by ideology could believe that the man has any intrinsic merit whatsoever. And that does not speak well for her intelligence or her common sense.
I would invite Paglia to a dinner party without hesitation.
This is worth at least half a million votes.
This article is pathetic. When do we get to the "good read" part? The reason why an older man can hold the keys to the future is because they have lived long enough to see things go round the block enough times, that they aren't fooled by the latest sweet talking Johnny Come Lately promising the same old crapola.
"Experience is a dear school; Fools learn in no other." You know who said that, Camille? Ben Franklin. The guy who was 81 years old as a delegate to the Philadelphia convention.
You know what? I'm done with this idiotic article. I've read enough.
that's quite a leap! but he did make an outstanding pick!
I have always had respect for Paglia, she is honest and faces reality of what she believes. Too bad she still chooses to believe as she does but she does so without trying to pretend it is something other than as it is. From this column.
Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue. The state in my view has no authority whatever to intervene in the biological processes of any woman’s body, which nature has implanted there before birth and hence before that woman’s entrance into society and citizenship.
Salon still being published?
And what she says about strong women in the country and on farms certainly coincides with my own experience.
Here's one episode. My father and his visiting brother, a dapper barber by trade, were standing outside having a smoke when a great noise came from the nearby barn. A calf had escaped. Our landlady yelled, "Stop her!" as the calf came careening at full speed toward my father and uncle, who both instinctively stepped back as the calf galloped through the mud between them. Irate, our landlady trudged past them to the upper pasture, cornered the calf, and carried that massive animal back to the barn in her arms. As she walked by my father and uncle, she exclaimed in amused disgust, "Men!"
Been there, done that. I have known many women like that, and they weren't namby pamby feminists.
I admire Paglia - even though she is a deep seated liberal. I say she is one of the best columnists and essayists around....conservative or liberal.
Although I have not read many of Camille’s articles (probably less than a dozen), I have always enjoyed them. This is ABSOLUTELY the greatest article I have ever read by Camille Paglia!
Hooray Camille!
Thanks very much for posting, rface.
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