Camille Paglia is pretty awesome. She reminds me of my ma' (sans the lesbian part). That's the way I was brought up. You want something? You ask for it. You think something? You say it in a direct manner. Tears and whining is/was reserved for little kids. Grown women crying? When somebody died. Your fee-fees are hurt? Well, tuff luck.JackRayner wrote:So, I finally got around to watching Christina Hoff Sommers doing a talk on the "War Against Boys", and she quotes Camille Paglia near the end. Anywho, I've been on Paglia's Wikiquote page for the past hour and a half and.....GODDAMN! WHY AM I JUST NOW FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS WOMAN?!
I don't agree with every thing she says, but goddamn! GODDAMN! :clap:
But then, the women in my life (grandmas, mom, aunts) dealt with really tuff shit. Abandonment, where the next meal was coming from, life threatening diseases, homelessness, etc. The men in my life (dad, grampa, uncles) also dealt with the same shit.
Anywho, one of the things she said that I liked the most was along the lines of "I don't blame men, because I don't fear them". It makes me think of how much I owe to my "latin macho" father than to any of those useless first world feminists. It was my father (the "don't ride alone with boys" type), along with my mother, the ones that made big sacrifices to make sure that I went to engineering school. So, fuck you, smug feminist. You done nothing.