Punching Paglia

[Chris Stolz]

At 10:34 PM 11/27/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I certainly cannot speak for all feminists, but I know much of the
>frustration about Camille Paglia comes from the assumption that she is a
>feminist because she is a woman.  This is untrue.  Many women
>spout the male party line and get mondo approval for it.  She is one of
>them.  That is her right.  But don't confuse it in any way with "the
>radical notion that women are people."  Happy Gluttony, All!  Dian_A_

        I would add to this two other things-- 

1)  Paglia turns feminism into a straw man, i.e. imputes to it claims which
it either doesn't make or which aren't representative of most of its
exponents, and then attacks the straw man (woman?)

2)  she is, like her diss. adviser Bloom, fundamentally a monloguist who
speaks in sound bites and one-liners and doesn't listen to her opponents,
plus she drinks too much coffee.

chris


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