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u/YourGayOpinion · 10 pointsr/The_DonaldBookclub

Ivy League (former)lefty faggot intellectual reporting for booty! #MAGA


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u/bukvich · 8 pointsr/slatestarcodex

Paglia is brilliant. If you like Nietzsche I bet you would like her. Except of course many politically active feminists hate her guts. Her writings are all over the web. Her magnum opus, Sexual Personae might be indispensible. It is an abridged version of her Yale PhD thesis, and she complains about the publisher making her cut out 200 important pages. You had better have done a lot of homework if you want to accuse her face-to-face of not putting forward her own feminist vision. She has a debate method of talking so fast that people's heads spin.

Link to Sexual Personae; it is 712 pages long.

u/darkstout · 8 pointsr/enoughpetersonspam

Paglia's magnum opus is Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a book hated by feminists as Paglia loves Freud and attempts to explain why men create art to sublimate their libido, and why the ancient Greeks fucked boys.

u/liatris · 3 pointsr/news

Intro to psychology and anthropology?

From her Wikipedia entry -

Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator".

She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and a collection of essays, Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992). Her other books and essays include an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and Break, Blow, Burn (2005) on poetry. Her most recent book is 2012's Glittering Images. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralist theory as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of U.S. social culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.

Here are some of my favorite quotes of her's....


"Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses."


"White middle-class girls at the elite colleges and universities seem to want the world handed to them on a platter. They have been sheltered, coddled and flattered. Having taught at a wide variety of institutions over my ill-starred career, I have observed that working-class or lower-middle-class girls, who are from financially struggling families and must take a patchwork of menial jobs to stay in school, are usually the least hospitable to feminist rhetoric. They see life as it is and have fewer illusions about sex. It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line — as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one."


"We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible."

u/[deleted] · -1 pointsr/Feminism

That as patently false as the Cracked article. Read some books.