A well respected "contrarian" feminist and lesbian author, Carmille Paglia, is not overly impressed with Hillary. You may enjoy her comment/analysis on Hillary, below:
Paglia (on Hillary):
"If you don’t have an effective public persona, if you’re not a good speaker, if you don’t like to press the flesh, if you’re not nimble enough to deal with anything that comes along, then you are not a natural politician! And you sure aren’t going to learn it in your late 60s! Get off the stage, and let someone else truly electable on! All this silly talk about how wonderful Hillary is in private. Oh, sure, she’s nice to the important people and the people she wants or needs something from! Then she’s Pollyanna herself! There are just too many reports stretching all the way back to Arkansas about Hillary’s nasty outbursts toward underlings when things aren’t going well. The main point is that the ability to communicate with millions of people is a special talent, and Hillary pretty obviously lacks it."
Source: Salon, here.
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Who is she?
Wikipedia has a good write-up. I do not know this woman, but this past week, I have noticed that she is in the news, often. She appears to be well received in the liberal ranks, but is, herself, very much an independent, "contrarian libertarian." You will like much of what she says, and a disagree on a number of issues. She is clearly not impressed with Hillary. ~ editor
From Wikipedia:
Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist,[1] has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984.[2] The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator".[3]
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 Glittering Images (2012). 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.
Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture, including feminism and liberalism.[4][5] She has been characterized variously as a "contrarian academic" and a feminist "bête noire,"[6][7] a "witty controversialist,"[8] and a maverick,[9] Margaret Wente has called Paglia "a writer in a category of her own... a feminist who hates affirmative action; an atheist who respects religion" and "a Democrat who thinks her party doesn't get it."[10] Martha Duffy writes that Paglia "advocates a core curriculum based mostly on the classics" and rails against "chic French theorists Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan," and "has a strong libertarian streak — on subjects like pornography — that go straight to her '60s coming-of-age."[6] Elaine Showalter has called Paglia a "radical libertarian," noting her socially liberal stands on abortion, sodomy, prostitution, drug use, and suicide. Paglia has denounced feminist academics and women's studies, celebrated popular culture and Madonna, and become a media celebrity, writing op-eds and gossip columns, appearing on television and telling her story to journalists.[11]
Paglia has said that she is willing to have her entire career judged on the basis of her composition of what she considers to be "probably the most important sentence that she has ever written": "God is man's greatest idea."[12]
1500 cases of species homosexuality in animals was cited by the American Psychiatric Association and other groups in their amici curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, which ultimately struck down the sodomy laws of 14 states.
ReplyDeleteSooo, they had to find a queer rabbit before they could stop trying to enforce a law they could not enforce?
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