Feminist author (or pseudo-feminist author, if you go that way) Camille Paglia has a new book coming out called Free Women, Free Men. It’s a compilation of her writings, essays, columns and more from her forty-year career. To promote the book, Paglia sat down with NY Magazine for what seems like an in-depth interview, although NY Mag didn’t provide many quotes for the subjects that interested me the most. Like, I wanted Paglia’s hot-takes on pop culture figures, but NY Mag just breezed through most of those subjects, offering a listicle of Paglia’s current likes and dislikes. I’ve never really been a big Paglia fan, but I like reading her stuff because she makes me examine my own sense of feminism and the world. I have to say though… I found her less compelling after reading this, mostly because of her hot-take of Donald Trump and his supporters. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
What she approves of: Football, Bernie Sanders, Katharine Hepburn, Rihanna, the Real Housewives franchise, taramasalata. The only TV she watches are Turner Classic Movies and the Real Housewives. She has no interest in Facebook, Twitter, or the Kardashians.
What she scorns: Michel Foucault, Doris Day, Lena Dunham, Elena Ferrante, college students who are always whining about date rape.
Here are some things of which Camille Paglia used to approve, but has since exiled from her esteem: Bill Clinton, Madonna. She continues to believe in both the ’60s and rock and roll.
She & her ex-partner share custody of a 14-year-old son: “I wouldn’t have known how to raise a girl. I mean, the idea that I would have to — pink nail polish, all that, oh my god. I don’t know what I would have done.”
She was unsurprised by Trump’s victory: “I felt the Trump victory coming for a long time,” she told me. Writing last spring, she’d called Trump “raw, crude and uninformed” but also “smart, intuitive and a quick study”; she praised his “bumptious exuberance and slashing humor” (and took some pleasure in watching him fluster the GOP). Speaking two weeks into his administration, she sounded altogether less troubled by the president than any other self-declared feminist I’d encountered since Inauguration Day: “He is supported by half the country, hello! And also, this ethically indefensible excuse that all Trump voters are racist, sexist, misogynistic, and all that — American democracy cannot proceed like this, with this reviling half the country.”
She’s hated Meryl Streep for years too: “I have been on an anti–Meryl Streep campaign for about 30 years,” she said. When Trump called the actress “overrated” in a January tweet, “I wanted to leap into print and take that line but I couldn’t, because Trump said it.”
She loathes Hillary Clinton: “I like Hillary because she’s kind of a bitch,” Paglia said in a 1993 interview, but her assessment has since evolved. She now calls Clinton “a walking neurosis.” During the primaries, Paglia preferred Bernie Sanders — “an authentic leftist,” who brought her back to the 1960s. “That is what real leftists were like. They’re not post-structuralists with their snide, cool, elitist jargon.” In the general election, as a resident of Pennsylvania, she voted for Jill Stein.
She liked the Women’s March. “I think it’s important that women rediscover solidarity with themselves. It really wasn’t about feminism. It’s really not about Trump. It’s not about any of that. It was all of a sudden, Oh, wow, to be with all the women.”
But she hated the pink p-ssy hats: “I was horrified, horrified by the pink p-ssy hats,” she said; the pink p-ssy hats were “a major embarrassment to contemporary feminism. I want dignity and authority for women. My code is Amazonism. I want weapons.”
I feel like there’s a political niche within the progressive wing, and Paglia is trying to be a part of it. That niche is the “political savant/bitchy Cassandra with cultural ennui.” As in, there’s a small group of progressive people or left-of-center people are now acting like “oh, of course Trump won, I knew it would happen, because the state of the world, something something Bernie Sanders.” Shailene Woodley did the same thing. Michael Moore did too, although his prophecies of a Trump victory were actually rooted in on-the-ground experience. As for the fact that she voted for Jill Stein in Pennsylvania, one of the states that went for Trump… GTFO. No, seriously.
As for this: “This ethically indefensible excuse that all Trump voters are racist, sexist, misogynistic, and all that — American democracy cannot proceed like this, with this reviling half the country.” Watch us. No sleep ‘til impeachment.
Photos courtesy of Paglia’s Facebook, Getty.
“No sleep til impeachment”
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Yes! Thank you so much for this. I’m not giving in or up. #notmypresident
Wtf is her damage with Doris Day?
She knows nothing of old Hollywood..Day lost her life savings to bad agents/husband and gutted it up and rebuilt her life, was first on the bandwagon for AIDS research, and is a longtime advocate for animals.
Paglia is and always has been a snob about ‘her’ feminism..oh, her horror at little girls who giggle over pink polish or coeds with the nerve to talk about rape..she is one of the reasons many women cringe at the feminist label.
I’ve been obsessed with Old Hollywood since childhood and remember that DD was one of the few celebrities who openely supported Rock Hudson’s battle with Aids. CP’s criticisms come across as so random, and as others have said, Thirsty.
YES! boredblond, She really will not be remembered (as she assumes) for anything relevant. Shallow and not as bright as she imagines herself.
Not much has changed, I remember rolling my eyes at Camille 30 years ago.
What an entitled stuck up snob! Geez! Lady, you are no longer relevant and your comments do not matter! Go Away!
My question also. Doris Day made movies that were perfect for their time. She retired and has been incredibly active in animal welfare. She has worked so much for animal control and adoption that George W. Bush gave her the Presidential Order of Freedom for service to the country. So Paglia hates this lovely private woman, but likes the Real Housewives? What great discerning taste!
And Elena Ferrante! And complaining about date rape! What the hell?!
Elena Ferrante! For why?
I love her novels.
Feminist, my ass. Try misogynist. Oh, and I was once a girl and never wore pink nail polish or any nail polish ever. Idiotic remark, Cammie, but not surprising, coming from you.
Me, too. As a girl, I never wore pink nail polish. As a woman, I never wear pink nail polish. I hate nail polish in general, and never wear it. I hate makeup, and don’t wear it. I rarely wear dresses or high heels. As a girl, I played with both horse toys and car toys. I love sci-fi and action movies.
Paglia needs to stop with the misogynist stereotypes about girls.
I wore dresses and makeup and read sci fi and wanted to be Bond, not the Bond girl. Feminism comes in all shapes, sizes, colours, makeup or no makeup, heels or boots.
I don’t want Paglia – or a man, or anyone – to tell me what the hell to wear, look like, or whether my pink hat is offending their delicate sensibilities. Yeah, I saw some signs and heard quotes that personally were not in my comfort zone. But that is exactly the point – rights and inclusivity cannot be limited by our comfort zone. I find reality tv – Housewives, Kardashians, Bachelors whatever an insult to my intelligence. Have never watched an episode and have no desire to ever do so. But obviously many people like them, and who am I to tell them that the end of western civilization is nigh because of them?? I don’t like Miley and find her overly sexualized persona horrifying – but if that’s what it takes for her to feel comfortable and be her authentic self, more power to her.
Paglia can take her high falutin’ attitude anywhere she wants; doesn’t mean today’s feminists have to agree.
…but it’s also okay if you’re a girl who likes dresses, pink nail polish and the like. I don’t know why being a “tomboy” aka being like a boy is/was something to strive for? A girl can like nail polish and play hockey…it’s not an either or.
Because men are better than women, so when a girl wants to do “boy things” she is trading up, but when a boy wants to do “girl things” he is lowering himself. That seems to me to be the root of it.
Why does me not liking makeup and dresses somehow mean I’m “like a boy” or striving to be a boy? Why can’t a girl dislike the stereotypical “girl” stuff and still be a girl? Isn’t that part of what the whole point of feminism is: that there is more than one option for what a “girl” is?
I’m a straight woman, but I’ve been called a lesbian all my life because because I didn’t like “girly” things, and because I was more dominant than most other women. Because I didn’t fit the stereotypical mold of what a woman was, so I must be “like a boy”.
But F that noise because I like how I am, in my dislike of nail polish and dresses. If other girls and women like nail polish and dresses, or like nail polish and hockey, then bully for them. All are welcome, and all are girls/women.
Paglia made a stupid comment, and I used myself as anecdotal proof for why her comment was stupid. If you think Paglia made a stupid comment and would like to use some other types of women as anecdotal proof, then go ahead, add to the conversation. But why the need to insult me while doing it?
Also, why does me giving anecdotal evidence for why Paglia’s comment was stupid somehow mean I’m saying being “like a boy” is what we should be striving for or that women who like nail polish are bad? Or that boys who like “girl” things are bad?
Trixie, not sure who your comment was aimed at but if it was me, I obviously didn’t make myself clear.
In our society, there are activities that are coded as female (e.g. wearing make-up, liking babies) and activities that are coded as male (e.g. liking sports, being good at science). From birth (and even before) we are expected to confirm to those coded stereotypes, regardless of our personalities and tastes.
The activities that are associated with men are valued more than the activities associated with women. So when a woman does things associated with male behaviour, she is often considered to be bettering herself, whereas the reverse is true for men. A female engineer is admired (even as she’s also discriminated against and marvelled over like some kind of exotic animal). A male nurse is constantly teased and belittled and asked why he can’t get a proper job.
My point wasn’t that women should, or shouldn’t like “girly” things. My point was that it should be a choice, for both men and women, to pursue the things that they like, not the things society says they should like. If that means you hate nail varnish and like steam engines or whatever, great; that doesn’t make you worth less. It doesn’t make a woman worth less either if she loves sparkly nail varnish and wants to be a SAHM.
Hope that clarifies my position.
Trixie: the first part of my comment was directed at you (“but it’s also okay if you like…”) I thought the part where you specified liking “horse toys and toy cars and sci-fi” was you saying you liked stereotypically “boy” toys. Wasn’t trying to insult as I don’t think there was an insult thrown?
The “tomboy” part was in general. As a semi-pro hockey player and a “girly” girl, I get the dichotomy. I’ve had to educate girls who proudly wave the “tomboy” flag (or the “I’m not a girly-girl I swear!!!”) that by saying that, you’re basically insinuating that being a “girl” is inherently bad? And being a boy is something to strive for.
It’s okay to be a “girly girl” and like make-up and play rugby and love romantic comedies but only read sci-fi.
I went through a girly phase in high school, where I wore nail polish, make-up, and dresses. I guess I thought it balanced out the “smart jock” rep I was getting. My mom was not interested, of no help, and unmissed during that stage of my adolescence. She was around for most of the rest of it, though.
+1 – anybody who scorns about girls ‘whining about Date Rape’ can only be described as a misogynist – appalling woman.
That’s where she first lost me (not that she had me in the first place) and then continued to go straight downhill with her BS. Once again she strikes me as very hungry for attention.
@ Esmom this says it all
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/30/camille_paglia_thinks_rape_is_intrinsic_to_mens_nature_and_a_lot_of_men_are_like_this_is_awesome/
I find her sickening.
+ bazillions!
Paglia is pseudo-intellectual who has made a living “challenging” feminist notions with bullshit ideas and big words so we’ll think she is smarter than us. She is no different than Anne Coulter or Laura Ingraham.
Exactly. She’s an early incarnation of those b^tches.
Agree. Add Susan Sarandon to that list. Read Paglia in Salon years ago. Just a thirsty provocateur. Good work as usual Kaiser.
Yep. #notmyfeminist
Yep. She’s beyond annoying.
Same feminism is about choice. If a girl wants to kick patriarchy in the butt wearing a pink tutu then let her. That’s some inherent misogyny right there.
Anyway she lost me at “college students whining about date rape”
So much here. Grew up with 3 brothers and a boatful of boys in the neighborhood. Never was what was considered “feminine” at the time. I was full on tomboy yet managed to raise 3 daughters without even thinking I would have no idea on how to raise them. And they all like their nail polish (not necessarily pink). Also, what the heck – she likes Real Housewives and watches the franchise but doesn’t like the Kardashian’s. All out of the same mold to me.
I only wear pink clothes and pink nail Polish every day in October. Never been my favorite color
Agreed.
“college students who are always whining about date rape.”
WTF’ingF?
Agreed!
“college students who are always whining about date rape.”
WTF’ingF?
god, this person with her fear of pink nail polish. sometimes i feel these types of people are the reason why many associate feminism with men hating, moustache-y and probably hairy in all possible places woman who most likely is a butch lesbian.
and real housewives? give me a break.
“men hating, moustache-y and probably hairy in all possible places woman who most likely is a butch lesbian”
Nothing wrong with those things tho 😀
Thank you! She is the grand supreme witch of misogyny disguised as feminism. Her “opinions” are as contradictory and contrived as a college freshman in their first week of philosophy 101. She and Jill stein can F each other – they are both a-holes.
Thank you!
Also, I need her to kiss my ass for this reason alone What she scorns: Michel Foucault, Doris Day, Lena Dunham, Elena Ferrante, college students who are always whining about date rape.
I mean, I don’t have context for that quote but anyone who can point out women’s concerns about date rape and rape culture as whining goes straight to my sh-t list.
And what’s wrong with Foucault? I found his work quite helpful as a college student.
I never liked her anyway but f*** her for voting for Stein in Pennsylvania. Anything else she says or does is automatically invalidated. Paglia was never anything but a fame whore who was controversial just for the sake of controversy but I’m glad she’s so happy to have been right about the election. Good for you, Camille /s.
All of this. Always thought she was full of shit but finding out she voted Stein in PA? Not just canceled, her file is going through the shredder as we speak.
+1. I don’t think it’s all bad to have someone challenge your beliefs, because that can serve to strengthen them and help you formulate your own arguments BUT we can just toss her name into the “a–hole” file and move along our merry way. I’d like to hear her thoughts on M!lo Y. I’ll bet she loves him.
I’m going to paint my nails pink today, and then I’m going to go out into the world and support my sisters and work hard to be a better feminist than Camille Paglia.
Err what? She hates bunch of things. For no apparent reasons other than just hating. Seems like a try hard to me. I have no idea who she is and I’m not even intrigued to find out.
FFS, enough with the “half the country voted for Trump” lie. Less than 25% of the voting population voted for Trump. And not every citizen gets to vote. So no, NOT half the country voted for him. A rather small percentage voted for him.
This^^^ Thought the same thing also.
That’s just what Trump supporters want to believe. No way did half the country vote for him. Almost half the country didn’t even vote! Trusters are clueless
It’s amazing that somebody who thinks she’s smarter than most people, missed such an important piece of information.
She hates Doris Day(?) and the Kardashians, but likes the Real Housewives? Some of those “Real Housewives” can be just as annoying/trashy and in some cases more than the Kardashians.
Why whatever do you mean? The Real Housewives series depict women at their absolute best.
*eyeroll*
I do think we’re seeing some internalized misogyny here. Not because she watches trashy tv (I watch true crime sh*t so I’m in no position to judge) but just based on her comments in their totality. Doesn’t seem like she cares much for women.
“College students who always whine about date rape” – Umm…. Am I missing something here or should she be cancelled?
I think feminism has long ago outgrown her, so she’s trying to be controversial in a desperate effort to be relevant. Nice try Cammie, but we’ve moved on.
I was going to write the same thing. I say cancelled.
What to he eff was that statement?! Oh she’d rather young women sit quietly with their assault and never speak of it (which is, so sadly, what oftentimes happen she anyway)? What a disgusting statement.
She doesn’t believe it is assault, and believes that women shouldn’t trust men, ever, basically.
@deitrus, so she thinks women shouldn’t say anything because by trusting men they basically asked for it?
yeah, pretty much. “You stupid girl, you get what you deserve trusting those rapist mens”.
Camille is a horrible woman all around.
She sounds deranged.
“She scorns: college students who are always whining about date rape.”
Not sure if shade on the authors part, but that’s why she isn’t a feminist. She believes if you’ve had too much to drink and your friend rapes you in your dorm, you are responsible.
But she says it’s because men intrinsically rape. No. No. No. no. Ugh. I hate her so much.
Yes this is one of many reasons why I loathe this woman.
She’s not good for feminism or women in general, really.
She is horrible isn’t she? She sets us back so far.
This type of ‘feminism’ is why people get the impression women hate men. And then the far right gets to say, of course rape is natural, even feminists says so! men can’t control their boners hur hur hur.
I am firmly of the thought that saying men cannot control themselves is infantilizing and disrespectful and do not address the real issue.
“And then the far right gets to say, of course rape is natural, even feminists says so! men can’t control their boners hur hur hur. I am firmly of the thought that saying men cannot control themselves is infantilizing and disrespectful and do not address the real issue.” All of this. I’ve seen conservatives and mansplaining dudebros effortlessly use the words of Camille Paglia, Ariel Levy, Chrissy Hynde, Rashida Jones, and other feminists to justify their victim-blaming and sexist stances so many times over the years, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s so important for us as feminists to be careful.
I also agree about her tired arguments about men not being able to control themselves, the sight of women’s skin and curves triggering men into raping women, and all that other BS. Her argument is already disproven by the fact that not every male is a rapist, the very low rape rates in nudist colonies, the very high rape rates in countries where female sexual modesty are more strictly imposed, and the fact that not every rape/sexual assault victim is a scantily clad female.
I guess a she’s entitled to her opinions, which I never found very compelling.
Question: Why do people who should know better keep saying half of the American public voted for baby fists? From what I read only 25 percent of Americans voted for him because half of the eligible voters didn’t vote at all.
Yes, about 25% *of the voting population*. But really it’s less than 25% of American citizens voted for 45, because not all citizens are a part of the voting population.
Exactly! It drives me crazy when people who should be better informed say half the American population voted for baby fists because it’s simply not true. But then I always found Paglia to be a lazy thinker and a blatant pseudo intellectual.
Her and Susan Sarandon can go and skip their way through the meadow of rich white lady privilege and into obscurity. Yes, because all of us annoying gals and our pink nail polish and our whining about rape culture! Sighs.
She also hates Katy Perry. Is she becoming a cranky person or what?
Not becoming; she was always like this. Controversy for its’ own sake is her very reason for being.
Becoming?
Camille Paglia is the Julian Assange of feminism in that they like to present themselves as unapologetic truth seekers, but in reality all the both of them are, are self promoting, self aggrandizing blowhards interested in only one thing-the sound of their own voice.
She’s an a**hole and she always has been.
YES! This is perfect. Exactly exactly exactly.
Nailed it
Yes, I agree that you really nailed it. I used to hate-read her columns in Salon. She really is an anti-feminist.
“…their snide, cool, elitist jargon.” I almost busted a gut laughing at this remark coming from the epitome of snide, (so-called)cool, elitist jargon. Sit down, Camille, you’re even less relevant than you ever were.
I know, right? She’s amazing in her utter lack of self-awareness.
“snide, cool, elitist jargon” is code for “words of more than three syllables that I am too dumb to understand and too lazy to look up in the dictionary.”
I know. Seriously, everything she said left me incredulous and/or disgusted. I hope her book tanks.
I’m so damn sick of the folks who keep saying “stop calling Trump supporters racist, sexist, or stupid.”
At this point, if you have any support for Trump, you are for damn sure all of those things.
Case in point that I wanted to share: Pope Francis said true Christians build bridges, not walls. Didn’t specifically mention DT, but his supporters went nuts, ranting that the Pope is a “Commie hypocrite” because the Vatican has walls.
One comment that made me physically ill: “Donald Trump is more Christian than the Pope will ever be.”
Someone. Actually. Said. This. With seriousness and everything.
F-ck you, Camilla Paglia; I’ll revile these people forever. They deserve it.
Maybe Camilla should get her head out of her ass and start listening to POC voices:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaplan-trump-as-a-southern-man-20170309-story.html
Listening to the voices of POC would require getting her head out of her butt, and also having empathy and tolerance. None of that fits Paglia or any other Trump apologist/supporter.
Me to self: “Who dis woman?” “Someone totally irrelevant.” [goes back to reading real gossip]
Camille Paglia has spent the entirety of her career hating women. She may identify as a feminist, but she isn’t one.
She seems all over the place with her comments. Reminds me of Emperor Zero.
That’s a bad look.
I have no idea who this woman is but from now on when I think “troll” her image will immediate spring in my mind.
Ugh. Cannot stand this woman; never could. She does nothing to further women. That’s all.
If she “felt” the Trump victory coming for a long time, she must have been in incredible pain! He’s painful torture to us, our country, and the world
This is why we need feminism.
This woman is a fame whore posing as an academic. She has nothing new or interesting to say and should be cancelled yesterday.
Very much so. Not dissimilar to Ann Coulter.
After reading her comments I realize that she is Susan Sarandon, but with wrinkles. People like her helped so-called president and p*ssygrabber-in-chief get rewarded for his racism and assaults on decency. Good for her. :/ NOT!!!!
“College students who are always whining about date rape.”
She is a truly gross and crude individual.
Who is she again? Oh that’s right, a woman who thinks that men should be disrespect the womanhood and still for feminism.
A damn shame that women like her and Kellyanne Conway still exist a submissive ball sucker for power dull men.
Yes, because all girls want is to wear pretty frilly dresses and wear pink nail polish.
Even hardcore feminists still get it wrong sometimes.
Is it me or is she the M!lo Y!ann0p0ul0s of feminism? And her hair is about as bad as his.
Meh. She’s a no different troll than say, Katie Hopkins.
She’s always come across as a somewhat angry white feminist who judges other women pretty harshly. I never really get the point of what she says. It seems to be random b!tchery disguised as intellectualism to me. I don’t find her accessible at all.
Oh the horrors of having a daughter and if she wanted to *gasp* wear pink nail polish!?! How would she cope!?!?! Thank god she had a son! (In all seriousness, based on these quotes she shouldn’t have any children.)
I imagine she is a narcissistic parent.
I HATED that part most of all. It reminded me of a friend who found out she was expecting a little boy and told me “I’m so happy we are having a boy, we always go camping and quading and I would not know what to do with a girl” And all I could do was stare at her in disbelief and say “So you’re a girl who likes camping and quading but you didn’t want a girl because she wouldn’t like those things?!?! Also, FYI there’s no guarantee your son will like those things either.” To this day when I think of it it bothers me.
I also hate when people make comments about being relieved about not having girls because “Teenage girls are the worst”. Like honestly misogyny is just so deeply ingrained and it’s just so depressing. It’s to the point that no matter what, as soon as a pregnant couple tells me they are hoping it’s a boy it raises my hackles no matter what their reasoning is. So nice knowing so many of us girls were seen as the “silver medal” in babies.
I also hate when couples say “We have two girls so we’re trying for a boy!’ Honestly, you cannot ‘try’ for a specific sex unless you get IVF done (that’s right, none of those ‘timing’ methods have shown any statistical significance that they actually sway sex at all), but if you cannot be equally happy with either gender THEN DO NOT HAVE A BABY PERIOD.
OT but what is “quading”?
LOL Kitten
Riding an ATV.
Yeah, it always bothers me when people- especially people who don’t identify as conservatives or MRAs- make comments about desperately hoping none of their children turn out to be girls or being grateful their kids are boys, (when males are the ones who commit the majority of the world’s violent crimes, are more likely to vote for the Donald Trumps of society, and are more likely to be a part of hate groups, yet somehow it’s girls who are so terrible and mean and whom people don’t want to raise) especially when it’s a response to a topic about feminism-related issues or sexuality. It’s like, shouldn’t you be more worried about how your male children turn out as people? And a few years ago some prudish male celebrity gossip blogger did a post clutching his pearls about unchaste famous women and ranting about how he hopes he never has a girl because of it. I was thinking, so basically you don’t care if you have a son who grows up to have sex and pursue some of the career moves of Channing Tatum, Adam Levine, Lenny Kravitz, and Justin Bieber (men who have taken off their clothes), but the thought of a daughter growing up to be sexual means girls aren’t worth raising?
I feel really sad inside after reading what she said 🙁
No sleep until impeachment.
Camille, honey-
Let me offer you a big, steaming cup of STFU. And have *all* the seats.
Exactly. Ugh.
I have always detested Paglia. To me, she’s just another Ann Coulter. They may claim to be on opposite sides of the coin, but when you break down their so-called “arguments”, their views are one and the same.
Agreed Kristina. Was prepared to like this woman a lot more after reading this and now I don’t like her at all. I think her taste and her opinions are all skewed all over the place and most of them are wrong. And I’m a feminist.
Never liked her or thought she was worth reading. I remember she had an obvious infatuation with Madonna back in the day.
Camille sounds uptight and dull af. My militant friend & I always joke that come the revolution she will be armed with molotov cocktails & I will be armed with glitter bombs. The pink pussy hats were an amazing feat of organisation, they gave so much aesthetic cohesion to the protest photos and they are reusable which is great for the environment!
I hang out in socialist/ left wing circles and I’m so over the idea that we have to be ‘dignified’ when we protest or criticise the establishment. She seems very narrow minded.
I’m sorry but this woman is an idiot. Take several seats, lady, whoever you are.
As a European I never understood how Americans could NOT see Trump’s win coming a mile away. Hillary Clinton is and always has been unelectable. She exudes corruption and the very worst of professional politics and coupled with the demise of America’s middle class and the rise in intolerance and racism Trump’s presidency was a given. Personally I think the democratic party screwed the American voters by insisting on, and going to great unethical lengths to ensure, the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. This mess is on them and on Hillary Clinton who couldn’t win.
Her opinions about Clinton don’t bother me. I’ve had some negative thoughts myself about Hillary’s privilege and arrogance being just as much to blame for her loss in the 2016 presidential race as anything. BUT . . .
“WHINING about date rape?” She really needs to STFU and stay STFU’d if she’s going to spout misogynistic BS.
Anti-feminist Propagandist Paglia Says Words. Some things never change.
I’ve always found Paglia’s thoughts about art and culture alot more interesting than what she has to say about politics. @grabbyhands nailed it: She’s is the Julian Assange of feminism. But a more trollish wannabee provocateur version.