Bree wrote: > Have you > read anything by > Camilla Paglia (sp)? She is a lesbian writer who > castigates some of the > leadership in the feminist movement. She dares to > speak out, so she's sort > of been... PUT OUT TO SEA.
While there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made of the many feminist and LGBT movements, I don't really think Paglia is making them. She's all teeth and no insight. And though she certainly is not terribly respected in most academic circles, she has developed quite the lucrative celebrity intellectual career. I guarantee she makes much more money than most in feminist/LGBT movements or the ivory tower, with large speaking fees, etc. Conservative/critical women/queers/people of color have the man-bites-dog cachet going for them, and grab easy headlines. Paglia is one of many such figures who have built careers on such counterplaying, without the real intellectual heft other conservatives (say Buckley, or Scaglia) *do* possess. Of course, there are plenty of dippy lefties, too. --Michael NP: Maxwell, _Now_ ===== "And if you didn't see The light on the water You never saw me." --Sylk 130 feat. Alison Moyet, "Skipping Stones" / Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
