View Full Version : Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues
A topic that touches on so many topics we discuss here
'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579240022857012920
A very good read, if I did not know any better I would have sworn it was written by one of the members of this forum. The big difference being she has breasts :).
The Reaper
12-28-2013, 14:53
A very good read, if I did not know any better I would have sworn it was written by one of the members of this forum. The big difference being she has breasts :).
You know she is a lesbian, right?
The ship's turning.
Another prognostication? :D
TR
You know she is a lesbian, right?
Another prognostication? :D
TR
I'm a half-full guy. ;)
You know she is a lesbian, right? TR
Yes, but I did not want to interject her sexual preference into my post lest I seem homophobic.
The Reaper
12-28-2013, 16:08
Yes, but I did not want to interject her sexual preference into my post lest I seem homophobic.
No way, dude!
TR
Yes, but I did not want to interject her sexual preference into my post lest I seem homophobic.
Whatta worried about?
Ya got a show on A&E or some other network we don't know about? :munchin
Scimitar
12-28-2013, 21:40
She starts by pointing to the diminished status of military service.
"The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service—hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster," she says.
"These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too.
They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality."
Excellent point
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A key part of the remedy, she believes, is a "revalorization" of traditional male trades—the ones that allow women's studies professors to drive to work (roads), take the elevator to their office (construction), read in the library (electricity), and go to gender-neutral restrooms (plumbing).
" Michelle Obama's going on: 'Everybody must have college.' Why? Why? What is the reason why everyone has to go to college? Especially when college is so utterly meaningless right now, it has no core curriculum" and "people end up saddled with huge debts," says Ms. Paglia. What's driving the push toward universal college is "social snobbery on the part of a lot of upper-middle-class families who want the sticker in the window."
That is exactly what a Lib Professor I have worked for stated. In the professors opinion the education system has become a racket to fund the ever increasing salaries of faculty and administration.