By keying into her delivery style instead of the substance of her speech demonstrates the EXACT kind of superior "above it all" reductive intellectual sneering that she protests against. You can fool some people with that attitude but not the ones you wish you could. Watch the video again but this time concentrate on the subject matter. She is one of the few people in modern media worthy enough to listen to. Comment on what she said and not how. That would be the smarter approach.
+sockmess Which were taught by the other side of that generational coin. There was a huge "civil war" in the academia of the left, mostly during the 80's. The common sense feminists lost, unfortunately, because lies spread faster than truth.
Actually they won in the public square of debate, but as Christina points out while they were debating in think tanks, on TV, and on panels the regressive feminist got the associate professorships, and wormed their way in, while remaining as a silent assassin slowly, but surely shitting out ideologues.
love seeing older feminists calling out this batshit insanity, her and based mom are doing good work...too bad ageists naive millenials will just assume she's bitter or "doesn't get it"
+sockmess just be aware there are plenty of 1970s feminist dinosaurs who are every bit as batshit crazy as modern college campus feminists. greer, bindel, etc. it's not like feminism was good in past decades; there has always been things to hate about feminism.
One must pardon Camille for her rapid fire non stop manner. It is not a flaw. It is more truly indicative of her brilliance. The woman actually has a great mind. When any gal can sit there and sum up Hillary Clinton's falsity in mere seconds, she has my vote. And the pile of pudding line is fabulous.
You are so right. Her mind is looking at all the facets of each issue and attempting to bring them into the discussion. This makes her style so specific.
Oh man oh man I love Paglia. If Feminism was comprised of thinkers like Sommers and Paglia I would shout feminism from the rooftops. This was just truth and common sense. A joy. Thanks for posting!!
+ScottishAtheist Paglia is amazing, a fantastic thinker. I would have agreed entirely with you about Sommers too, only she signed that letter urging Donald Trump to fire his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over the Michelle Fields affair, when it was particularly obvious that Fields was a liar. Sommers dropped like a stone in my estimation. She is normally so logical, so many rational people are losing their minds over Trump.
Sommers and Paglia are not feminists, sweetheart. All they do is to attack feminists, how can they be feminists? Think, dear. THINK. They are anti feminists cowards who only call themselves feminists to try the last drop of credibility that they think they still have.
I found her back in the 90's while still in my impressionable 20's. As a result, when I thought of feminism I thought of Camile. Sadly, her brand of feminism lost favor rather quickly. These days when I hear 3rd & 4th wave feminists describe themselves as strong & independent I immediately hear Camile mocking them.
Read Ella Whelan's book, which calls for an end to feminism. You'll walk away have quite few doubts as to how healthy an idea feminism ever was to begin with
It will never happen. Dunham's kind absolutely hate having their ideas challenged and will decry "everything is sexist, everything is racist and everything is homophobic, and it is our job to point it out." (An actual quote from one of her allies, Anita Sarkeesian.) To disagree means you are a bad person.
Obama’s newest political appointee (Misandrist attorney) Shannon Minter boasted in a legal education class at supposedly ‘Catholic’ Santa Clara University of HER legal case AGAINST an exclusively Homosexual Male (XY) Softball Team - Which banned both switch hitters and “Straight” Males. Minter supported banning Exclusively Heterosexual Males (using the Slur “Straight” - linear narrow, unbending…), saying the Judge Mistook “bisexual black men” for the “Dangerous Outsider Straight Men” Minter said the Judge “Treated Bisexuals as Straight Men Trying to Bully their way in”- to the closed world of homosex softball Santa Clara U Misandrist supported Her ‘tolerance’ pogrom to include Censorship - of note taking recording these hateful Misandrist slurs. Because I was writing down these Quotes Directly as they were dumped on Men, when the programmers saw this - I was not permitted to return for the last part of class and not refunded my tuition. However - the Tenured Radical ‘perfesser’ named Stephanie Wildman running the show - said to claim the Full Amount of Hours for the class credit. So a Tenured Law Professor directed me to Falsify File Professional Education Credits to the Bar - to prevent me from hearing and recording more of their pervasive Hateful Misandry. SEE Meet Obama's Newest Trans Appointee: Attorney Shannon Minter www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/06/09/meet-obamas-newest-trans-appointee-attorney-shannon-minter
dean b Lena Dunham is a filthy, hideous, malignant, sinister, perverse sexual predator. The fact that this is somehow dismissed (despite being referred to in her memoir as she sexually exploited her baby sister) and she is somehow hailed as a feminist icon reflects the sickened state of society.
Well, most feminist uplift Hilary knowing full well that the women who were assaulted by bill were then threatened by Hilary personally. They don't bother with facts. They have their golden calves & they worship them in spite of the fact that they don't live the ideals that they herald.
Wit, penetrating insight, common sense, courage, conviction, historical knowledge, clarity--all Paglia's strengths. I do not understand the point of holding to a 'dissident wing' of something that has been so hopelessly corrupted that it can never recover and doesn't deserve to recover; but in everything else, I couldn't agree more.
N N hhhhhhmmmmmm I don't know about that but at lest she is not afraid to point out hypocrisy in her own camp - which if each camp did then there is more hope for progress.
Camille is awesome. Certainly somewhat of a motor-mouth, but she knows what she's talking about. I also really like Christina Hoff-Sommers. And yes, "flower power," Dr Paglia *_is_* a feminist, or at least she calls herself one. So get bent.
there is only males here praising this anti feminist cunt. feminists don't have time to waste on the internet making offensive comments, insulting, threatening and being the absolute scum that males are when they don't like someone.
Videos like this attract a higher IQ crowd, hence the more thoughtful comment section. You can see this clearly if you sign out of your UA-cam account and browse UA-cam. The videos that will be recommended to you are aimed right at the average, middle-of-the-bell-curve person.
@@djblackprincecdn its true man, I'm mostly liberal and vote Democrat but I hate the cultural ideology and the obsession with gender, it drives me fuckin nuts
Never heard of this lady before, but damn, she pretty much just confirmed everything I've believed I've been seeing for the last about 30 years. Insane! THANK YOU, Spike!!
Imagine being a student in her class and taking notes. Even digital recorders are left gasping at the corner as the bus they've been chasing pulls away. We ought to endow a library in her name, not try and get her sacked for speaking about the truth. Thank the cosmos she is still around. She is rare folks, rare.
"Don't teach girls how to protect themselves, teach boys how to behave". Right, but since I'm not responsible for the education of any boys until I'll have my own children (if I'll have boys), I'm gonna learn how to protect myself thank you. I'm not gonna wait until men become "my ideal" of noble masculinity.
June 06 well, girls Should learn to actually protect themselves rather than participate in the harmful protectionism that passes for women's safety measures. Also, they should not unduly and falsely problematise the aftermath of rape and sexual assault and also learn to stop being paranoid, gain the confidence to forgive and move on. Because, after your bruises heal, and they are usually no more than that, a crime is spiritually the perpetrator's problem, after all. If they are more, well then pay your dues. And make the perpetrator pay, through courts or, failing which, violence, to the best of their ability.
Camille is brilliant, with a touch of goofiness, and some caffeine. She's right about a lot of things, but not quite able to convey her points to everyone out there. Her opinions are backed up with experience and a gift for observation, compassion, realness, and love for humanity. She is a person who has been there and done that, and was awake the entire time.
"To me, this is not feminism...This is just a bourgeois culture of excuses and a projection of...like, a prima donna thing of...exposing the wounds; the wounds make you special - the wounds give you privilege." - BRILLANT ANALYSIS!
I recently found a clip of her and Bill Maher from the 90s, and she's speedtalking there too, so if she IS on coke, its safe to say she's been on it for a quite a long time lol...
This woman is brilliant and absolutely right. I go to university in the UK in a former polytechnic, and like myself, a good percentage of the people here are fairly local. And I can tell from the outrageous rape accusation stories, and other little tidbits that there is a significant difference between the culture here and in campuses in the USA, and the more affluent institutions over here, too. We're not intolerant by any stretch of the imagination - if I sat around our SU I'd probably overhear conversations in several different languages, and of course there's a healthy LGBT community too, including myself. But the women at my uni are not the delicate flowers of more affluent campuses. They're loud, rowdy, working class, you know, the sort of awesome girls with loads of guy friends. They're definitely a world away from the professional victims that Paglia is referring to, and I think such people could learn a lot from them.
That Guy thats pretty bang on, and i must say i recognised your point immediately. I am against radical feminism because not once have i ever felt unequal to a man.. but then i grew up on a council estate down south.. theres always been a "we are in this together" mentality :)
Camille lays it out as it is. My mother was arrested for standing up for herself in the 50's... these children wouldn't dream of putting themselves on the line for anything. They are hustlers, who make real women cringe with disgust.
Gore Vidal once said "There is no problem on Earth that couldn't be immediately solved if people would simply do exactly as I advise." This statement is actually true of Camille Paglia. She is a not only a genius, but she also (long ago!) saw past the worthlessness of liberal ideology and it's pathetic dogma. Her common sense needs to be shared abundantly around the internet!
If she is Bi-polar I would love to suffer from this affliction. Paglia has had this demeanor since I first saw her in 1992. Genius is not a symptom of bi polar mania. Idiots who are bi polar do not become genius when manic. They become manic idiots. I do not agree with all of Paglia's views,but she is as true an intellectual as you will find today. She challenges thought before accepting and is not a slave to an ideology. Maybe those who can't question their own views are suffering from a mental illness.
she perfectly illustrates how the progressives have become regressives. Liberals are such coddled people. They have no clue about how the world works. Liberalism is nothing more than a person needing a babysitter.
(1:30 - 6:00 ) American insularity, the college recreational experience, history and gender identity (7:26 - 12:36) Transgenderism, trivialities, censorship, peer pressure, personal development (12:59 -14:55) 1960s sexual liberation, surrender of personal autonomy in 21st century on campus (14:57 - 21:29) Ignorance of sex and disrespect for sexual difference, bourgeois victim culture (21:41 - 26:16) Lena Dunham, Hillary Clinton, juvenile feminism, Betty Friedan (26:35 - 30:13 ) Fanatics within feminism, working class women's moxie (30:14 - 32:26) Agrarian equality, the weak woman persona in upper middle class feminist utopianism (32:36 - ) The 2016 US Election candidates* This is just my rough attempt to index the interview, which is very interesting and covers much ground. Themes that run through it are gender politics, psychology, class difference, patterns in history.
I think the most important point here is that modern SJWs and feminists are from a class of people who are extremely sheltered and extremely entitled, you see it more generally in their politics of which feminism and social justice are really just branches of. When you're raised in this sheltered way all you know is kindness and abundance, things like money and assets are things which they're used to and when they don't have them they ask the question "where is this poverty coming from?", when in reality that is the default state, no one has anything until they build something and then protect that thing and pass it down through the generations, whether that be assets, knowledge, money, whatever. This is why liberalism and socialism is on the rise, these people just want handing everything because they don't understand that it takes people working really hard to provide the level of luxury we have today and that system is somewhat fragile, if you remove incentive for people to work and provide then you risk all of your luxuries. From that point of view it's not really surprising what their stance on gender politics is and other social issues. Places like safe spaces are luxuries which are afforded because we have a society structured to provide those things which don't exist in nature. A generation of shitty parents have raised the softest children our society has ever seen, and they feel entitled to everything.
This is brilliant, you phrased something in a way that organizes some recent thoughts concisely: ""where is this poverty coming from?", when in reality that is the default state, no one has anything until they build something and then protect that thing and pass it down through the generations" I still consider myself a liberal, but what that word seems to mean to most people in 2018 has changed DRASTICALLY in the span of only 5-10 years. Reducing your 'speech' to only those things that are certain not to offend, demanding equality of *outcome* vs equality of *opportunity* (analyzing the causes of outcome variation be damned), and the endless shaming and silencing of would-be allies based on their identity (in most cases, white straight men), cannot end well, and are at odds with classical Liberal values.
@@Matthewtron3030 In fact, modern identity politics, which progressives seem to regard as avant garde, is really a throwback to the collectivist identitarian political movements (national socialism and international socialism) of the 20th century. It's amazing to me that progressives today make so many mouth sounds about being against racism and Nazis without realizing that they are the modern inheritors of Nazi and Communist ideology that has been modified only by switching up some of the characters cast in the roles of good and evil.
I think you'll find that today the 'incentive to work' is less about luxuries and more about paying bills and putting food on the table. Socialism by today's standard is not about acquiring excess but achieving security through the implementation of fundamental needs for all. At that point, the incentive to work embodied in chasing profit is replaced by individual initiative and creativity. Sounds up your alley, no?
@@startmakingsense2071 Not really because more people have been raised out of poverty today than any point in human history and the rate at which people have access to the basics for human survival is accelerating. It's quite the opposite, socialism today is far more focused on luxuries and how people think that there's some minimum level of wealth that is acceptable in society, it's pure narcissism, this idea that you feel like you deserve something for no other reason than you can blurt it out and force other people to pay for it through tax or other redistribution. This is where we get selfish lines like "education is a human right" or "healthcare is a human right", no...none of those things are human rights.
2022. - a Spiked fan, but never heard this interview before. Really good (almost prophet-like) summary of how these issues have actually evolved (esp trans absurdities) over the past 6 years & the dangers for women. Everybody should listen. Absolutely brilliant - thanks.
As the mother of two young men (and one young lady) I have seen all of them navigate the landmines of the social constructs Paglia discusses. My main advice to them is not to put themselves in compromising positions and THINK about what they are doing and what the consequences are. Paglia pulls no punches in her opinions. I grew up in the 70's and have watched the devolvement of the feminist movement. I was always an "equal pay for equal work" thinker, but her discussion of how often women select careers that are not as high paying as the men is something I had not considered. And women often do take off time to stay home with their children which causes a loss of income and slows down their progress for promotions. I am in her dissident wing of feminism.
Great interview. I read Sexual Personae when it came out - admittedly to get my balls felt by hot art students; but if I remember right, it was a humanist argument. I will have to read it again - she makes perfect and intuitive sense to me.
She's purely brilliant. Not just from the perspective of having a very sound and worldly perspective on so many topics, but her mere enthusiasm and vigor and curiosity for critical thinking.
I don’t know much about her or her work but my first impression of her was: Her brain works so fast her speach literally can’t catch up with it. Amazing. There are many pseudo intellectuals in this world, who in reality are not that smart, but she is the real deal.
She is so right on working class women. I had this idea of feminism then I saw it. I was horrified and embarassed. Now I'm constantly saying "oh, not in rural women" but working class women is the same thing.
I can't get enough of Camille Paglia! I keep searching for more interviews of her. I wish we could vote people into immortality, because of what they contribute to the world...we need her as the voice of common sense!!
I love Camille ! Ask her a question and hold on tight cause she will take you on a whirlwind journey through her mind. Never stop Camille. We need more minds like you 😍
No, I think it's more from probably a lifetime of people trying to cut her off and shout over her. It looks more like a nervous mannerism to me. All be it a practical one.
Christopher Hickish A sign of highly intelligent people. That's also the reason why most have ugly handwriting, and are sometimes even a bit messy with paperwork and such... 📝📑📚
Precious Bob Emma Watson is first and foremost an actor, I don't think it would be very interesting to see such an uneven debate between a highly educated intellectual and a young actor with a college degree (not that Watson is stupid, but i think her intellect has some developing left to do)
Look up her interview with Joy Behar. Camille says what's on her mind and you can see the shock on Behar's face when she says Hillary is a terrible candidate.
This woman is so intelligent I bet she spends 99% of her day pissed off and annoyed that the people around her can't keep up. It's probably frustrating for her to participate in mundane tasks like going to the grocery store. I bet she wants to smack the cashier on the back of the head as the girl is trying to figure out how much change to give when the bill comes to $15.07 and Camille hands her a $20 bill, 5 singles and .07 cents.
I've loved Camille since I first read Sexual Personae back in 1990. She hasn't slowed down a bit and is as relevant and insightful today in her cultural criticism as ever.
The part about working class women being able to handle ourselves on the street. Yes. My ancestry is heavy laden with Lancashire mill workers from the Industrial Revolution into the 1950's... And yes that makes being able to raise your voice essential.
MIS315 I guess she's not for everyone, but I absolutely love her mind. A friend had me read some of her articles and I loved them. I really didn't know it was feminism, it just seemed like common sense. But she made me think. I questioned my own attitudes and evolved in some ways and was validated in others.I don't understand third wave feminism in the way her school of thought affects me. Her approach is inclusive, practical and empowering for everyone. The sensationalist third wave feminists you see on UA-cam seem more like narcissistic illogical agitators than thinkers. But that's UA-cam for you. I'm sure there's a world I'm missing beyond the insanity portrayed here. So while she may not be the current brand of feminism, Camille Paglia opened my eyes and made me a more thoughtful person, better coworker, mate, friend and son. So I'm a fan.
I disagree with Paglia on so much, yet agree with her on so much, and like her a lot. She's very honest, and even though she leans very far left, she sees the Left as it is and is not afraid to speak openly about what she sees. I wish there were more people on both the Right and the Left like her.
I was raised in Philadelphia, about the same age as Camille Paglia, shared similar experiences, I think she is great and to the point. Men are looking for sex and women are looking for partners, what can possibly go wrong?
"People in the U.S. are talking so much about soft topics like because they feel so cut off from real world events, to such a degree that they can't affect these really important event of our time in any meaningful way"
"Just slap 'gender neutral' on a bathroom and be done with it!" Holy shit I thought I was the only one. I seriously don't understand why transgenders and bathrooms is such a big issue.
+Strix I agree with her solution, but she seems to blame transgender people for the issue existing? Transgender people just want to use the bathroom. It's nosy conservatives who are making a massive issue about it. Also this lady has a few points, mostly about American university culture, but she mainly attacks strawmen. And she completely lost me when she claimed that inclusiveness leads to empires collapsing. She points out historical examples of decadence, not inclusiveness or civil liberties.
+tratan3 "It's nosy conservatives who are making a massive issue about it." That's only true if you assume that the 'progressive' stance on the issue is objectively correct. The reason it's a massive issue now is because the status quo was disrupted, and the disruption was caused by progressives.
Jesse Fortner Except that the progressive stance is for men who dress like men to go in the male bathroom. No fuss, no scene. But conservatives have a problem with that, for some reason, and would rather make new laws to force that masculine-looking person into the women's room. How are progressives "breaking the status quo" on this issue? Other issues, sure, but trans people have always existed.
+Strix I agre, the issue is simpler, but it is being used to try to divert the attention of the working class from the more urgent problems of society, like the military escalation of NATO in the Eastern European border, or the "pivot to Asia" of Obama, which is a cute name for the submission of China, and the decimation of wages and benefits of the working and retired population. I recommend this Marxist analysis of the issue: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/18/pers-m18.html
MrDLOC11 - Codependency is evil. It is the good cop mask, the goodie two shoes of every religious fanatic, the narcissistic coward hiding from own shadows. There is no honesty in them. Bullying comes in two flavors, twin faces that people hide their true agendas behind. Beware of too-nice and false smiles!
Camille Paglia quoted by NAMBLA: "These days, especially in America, boy-love is not only scandalous and criminal, but somehow in bad taste. On the evening news, one sees handcuffed teachers, priests and Boy Scout leaders hustled into police vans. Therapists call them maladjusted, emotionally immature. But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman, I feel free to protest that men today are pilloried for something that was rational and honorable in Greece at the height of its civilization." ~ Camille Paglia, activist and author
Camille Paglia - - "Worldwide, in Greece and Rome as in the Near East, China, and Japan, pretty boys have usually been considered by men to be as sexually desirable as women. This seems to me perfectly natural. Judeo-Christianity is unusual in finding the practice of boy-love abhorrent."
@@ChimpingBulldog I just know your ilk. You are so socially frustrated that you feel empowered by hiding behind your anonymity and spouting liberal talking points. Of course you may not be 500 lbs or a pimply face adolescent but you are a sheep following the ass in front of you.
Whenever I watch Camille Paglia on UA-cam, I have to check the speed setting to make sure I didn't accidentally bump it up to 1.5 Meanwhile, I don't know how she does it but Ella Whalen somehow makes "plain and frumpy" pleasantly appealing.
As I grow up, I'm becoming exponentially disillusioned. I want to believe there's another way, but I feel like this is how the formula will always go: Tough times will produce stronger, more robust people with character who are incentivized to preserve what good they have and who understand value. Easy, decadent times will produce weaker, drippy, oversensitive, lackadaisical, overly tolerant, whiny people who have no visceral understanding of value, who don't feel the weight of privilege, who are so padded and comfortable, they're overly sensitized and are scrupulous scouring for any microscopic imbalance and complaining. It literally seems like the more padded we are, the less happy we are. I don't want this to be true, but I think it is. History is one long, ugly cyclical story of how this happens over and over. I want to believe things can be different. I want to believe that we can enjoy the comforts of modern technology and the privilege we have today while also remaining proud, patriotic, protective of our land, deeply thankful of our decadence and happily striving for better, but I think that people just seem too fucking dumb to do that. Everyone is asleep. Everyone is reactionary. Everyone just seems like a robot programmed to respond to the stimuli, rather than acting and thinking independently. Everything everyone does is just an emotional reaction and it's why the pendulum has aggressively swung back and forth for thousands of years. I feel that the only way a civilization could enjoy decadence healthily is if it comprised of intelligent and mindful people, but unfortunately, I feel like those people are only the minority. I really really want to be wrong about this.
I agree with you... And it sucks. We're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over. But, such is life. I'm just glad I'm allowed a glimpse of the insanity. Yes, I may be surrounded by narcissistic idiots who will end up fucking everything up, but I also really like chocolate and glitter and cozy blankets and looking at the stars and thinking thoughts in my head and feeling feels on my skin. It's not so bad.
@@mgw622 - I don't want us to be right. I'm scared. I love humanity, I love society, I love technology and I'm continuously amazed by what we have. I had surgery a month ago, and I was in awe of the whole experience. The fact that it was painless, how through the wonder of technology, I was kept alive, comfortable and monitored, how every aspect of the experience was illuminated, air conditioned, medicated, monitored, etc. I left the hospital with a renewed love of what we have. I don't want to lose this because these slovenly, privileged, fragile suburban children think that it's just a default part of life to go to the supermarket and be bombarded by an ocean of different, affordable food options. I hope we're wrong, and these times we're living in are unprecedented. We've never lived like this before, so perhaps things can be different now. But if they aren't, I hope at least that I can release resistance to the concept that this is yet another typical cycle.
@@briannab4770 After living in Thailand and absorbing a lot of Buddhist philosophy second-hand, I'm a lot less attached to things in general... yes technology and humanity and society are amazing... but what will be will be, and it everything has its pros and cons. Spending a week or a day or even just a few hours without technology is also amazing. The universe existed just fine without us for billions of years. And it exists just fine with us. Que sera sera. I find it a much more relaxing way to go about existing, even though it is, at times, very depressing. But, such is the roller coaster of life. Hang in there!
Why the fuck isn't this woman holding intellectual DJ concerts around the world? She can spit complex words that make coherent meaning in its entirety in a rate that nobody else can. That is passion, and THAT is rare. People today might be colourful or even electrifying, but passionate- like Paglia. No. SERIOUSLY- get her on a stage and rock the shit out of the insularity of our time.
I love it. She is spitting raw truth and I'm a white lower class str8 male. Fucking brilliant! I just got back from P.R. and the latin woman are much more open. I'm now 36 Italian/Ukrainian and I see everything she is saying.
Wow, Camille Paglia has a ton of information in her mind that she cannot wait to get out. But I agree that colleges and professors should not be involved in the personal lives of the students. Bc I’ve met and sat down with more PhDs in classes and things than I ever thought I would, and I can tell you without a doubt that they do not want to be bothered by the students’ lives, bc they’ve dedicated their lives to the study of their craft above all. And I don’t blame them bc I would be the same way if was teaching at any level, grade school or at the high school level.
Her words are struggling to keep up with her thoughts. She has too much to say in a limited timeframe so she speaks so rapidly but her words are still very clear and comprehensible. Someone should analyze her speech patterns. It'd be so interesting.
I agree with her about the yelling thing. I'm from Argentina and I'm, as Camille, an italian descendant. People here talk louder in general, if you compare them with a wasp. But I have lived in two different places in the same city (middle class and working class neighborhoods) and now in a gated upper class community and the sounds are remarkable different. It's like the richer you are more silent becomes your life.
Interviewing Camille Paglia must be the easiest job in the world. You basically just say "Hello..." and then she will talk relentlessly
+The True Fizz
she's 69 years old, others her age are stupefied and can barely talk anymore, but she's as sharp as always, it's awesome
+Twinky House FYI I am neither stupified nor mute but mystified by your assessment of people of a certain age. Surely you jest! SMH
+Twinky House You're right. She's a powerhouse but a very engaging powerhouse.
By keying into her delivery style instead of the substance of her speech demonstrates the EXACT kind of superior "above it all" reductive intellectual sneering that she protests against. You can fool some people with that attitude but not the ones you wish you could. Watch the video again but this time concentrate on the subject matter. She is one of the few people in modern media worthy enough to listen to. Comment on what she said and not how. That would be the smarter approach.
Well Put
I like the older liberals and feminists. Just so much common sense oozing out. Unlike these people who are under 40 and are progressive/feminist.
+sockmess Which were taught by the other side of that generational coin. There was a huge "civil war" in the academia of the left, mostly during the 80's. The common sense feminists lost, unfortunately, because lies spread faster than truth.
Actually they won in the public square of debate, but as Christina points out while they were debating in think tanks, on TV, and on panels the regressive feminist got the associate professorships, and wormed their way in, while remaining as a silent assassin slowly, but surely shitting out ideologues.
love seeing older feminists calling out this batshit insanity, her and based mom are doing good work...too bad ageists naive millenials will just assume she's bitter or "doesn't get it"
sockmess I'm a progressive and fuck these sjws and "feminist" cucks
+sockmess just be aware there are plenty of 1970s feminist dinosaurs who are every bit as batshit crazy as modern college campus feminists. greer, bindel, etc. it's not like feminism was good in past decades; there has always been things to hate about feminism.
One must pardon Camille for her rapid fire non stop manner. It is not a flaw. It is more truly indicative of her brilliance. The woman actually has a great mind. When any gal can sit there and sum up Hillary Clinton's falsity in mere seconds, she has my vote. And the pile of pudding line is fabulous.
I love the way she beautifully rambles
You are so right. Her mind is looking at all the facets of each issue and attempting to bring them into the discussion. This makes her style so specific.
why would it need pardoning ?
Loved that line. She has a great entertaining vibe. She is a very interesting interested person
@@lewiscraw8294 well clearly it's a lot for some ppl. No need to get offended
Oh man oh man I love Paglia. If Feminism was comprised of thinkers like Sommers and Paglia I would shout feminism from the rooftops. This was just truth and common sense. A joy. Thanks for posting!!
+ScottishAtheist Paglia is amazing, a fantastic thinker.
I would have agreed entirely with you about Sommers too, only she signed that letter urging Donald Trump to fire his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over the Michelle Fields affair, when it was particularly obvious that Fields was a liar.
Sommers dropped like a stone in my estimation.
She is normally so logical, so many rational people are losing their minds over Trump.
+dressmakers dummy I invite you to discuss this on my site "Feminism:What is it?"
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Sommers and Paglia are not feminists, sweetheart. All they do is to attack feminists, how can they be feminists? Think, dear. THINK. They are anti feminists cowards who only call themselves feminists to try the last drop of credibility that they think they still have.
I found her back in the 90's while still in my impressionable 20's. As a result, when I thought of feminism I thought of Camile. Sadly, her brand of feminism lost favor rather quickly. These days when I hear 3rd & 4th wave feminists describe themselves as strong & independent I immediately hear Camile mocking them.
As someone that can't stand modern feminism, I truly love Camille Paglia. I can get behind her brand of feminism.
yes, me too
Its Original Feminism
Mike E - Not to sure about that. There's always been feminists who wanted the same rights as men AND stay "untouchable".
@@florzinnha Maybe you are just braindead?
Read Ella Whelan's book, which calls for an end to feminism. You'll walk away have quite few doubts as to how healthy an idea feminism ever was to begin with
I hope Lena Dunham sees this. Devastating and so well deserved.
I agree. Her assessment of her is completely spot on!
It will never happen. Dunham's kind absolutely hate having their ideas challenged and will decry "everything is sexist, everything is racist and everything is homophobic, and it is our job to point it out." (An actual quote from one of her allies, Anita Sarkeesian.) To disagree means you are a bad person.
Obama’s newest political appointee (Misandrist attorney) Shannon Minter boasted in a legal education class at supposedly ‘Catholic’ Santa Clara University of HER legal case AGAINST an exclusively Homosexual Male (XY) Softball Team - Which banned both switch hitters and “Straight” Males.
Minter supported banning Exclusively Heterosexual Males (using the Slur “Straight” - linear narrow, unbending…), saying the Judge Mistook “bisexual black men” for the “Dangerous Outsider Straight Men”
Minter said the Judge “Treated Bisexuals as Straight Men Trying to Bully their way in”- to the closed world of homosex softball
Santa Clara U Misandrist supported Her ‘tolerance’ pogrom to include Censorship - of note taking recording these hateful Misandrist slurs.
Because I was writing down these Quotes Directly as they were dumped on Men, when the programmers saw this - I was not permitted to return for the last part of class and not refunded my tuition.
However - the Tenured Radical ‘perfesser’ named Stephanie Wildman running the show - said to claim the Full Amount of Hours for the class credit.
So a Tenured Law Professor directed me to Falsify File Professional Education Credits to the Bar - to prevent me from hearing and recording more of their pervasive Hateful Misandry.
SEE
Meet Obama's Newest Trans Appointee: Attorney Shannon Minter
www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/06/09/meet-obamas-newest-trans-appointee-attorney-shannon-minter
dean b Lena Dunham is a filthy, hideous, malignant, sinister, perverse sexual predator. The fact that this is somehow dismissed (despite being referred to in her memoir as she sexually exploited her baby sister) and she is somehow hailed as a feminist icon reflects the sickened state of society.
Well, most feminist uplift Hilary knowing full well that the women who were assaulted by bill were then threatened by Hilary personally. They don't bother with facts. They have their golden calves & they worship them in spite of the fact that they don't live the ideals that they herald.
Love this woman
Glad to have you back making vids.
She is an intellectual Woody Woodpecker
Hey its you😀👍
Wit, penetrating insight, common sense, courage, conviction, historical knowledge, clarity--all Paglia's strengths. I do not understand the point of holding to a 'dissident wing' of something that has been so hopelessly corrupted that it can never recover and doesn't deserve to recover; but in everything else, I couldn't agree more.
Love your work Janice, would be a dream to see you and Camille in conversation together.
Thank God. Finally a Feminist I can respect and love
N N hhhhhhmmmmmm I don't know about that but at lest she is not afraid to point out hypocrisy in her own camp - which if each camp did then there is more hope for progress.
She is not a feminist. That's why you like her, pig.
Camille is awesome. Certainly somewhat of a motor-mouth, but she knows what she's talking about. I also really like Christina Hoff-Sommers.
And yes, "flower power," Dr Paglia *_is_* a feminist, or at least she calls herself one. So get bent.
This is the most civilised comments section I've seen in a long time on an issue like this.
yo mama's
bryan - cos everyone agrees with each other in detesting feminists - except Paglia?
there is only males here praising this anti feminist cunt. feminists don't have time to waste on the internet making offensive comments, insulting, threatening and being the absolute scum that males are when they don't like someone.
Videos like this attract a higher IQ crowd, hence the more thoughtful comment section. You can see this clearly if you sign out of your UA-cam account and browse UA-cam. The videos that will be recommended to you are aimed right at the average, middle-of-the-bell-curve person.
fuck you....sorry just had to dirty up a bit the aseptic environment....
I LOVE this woman and I'm a lifelong Republican!
You're not alone
Its almost like these labels of Republican and Democrat are completely useless.
@@djblackprincecdn its true man, I'm mostly liberal and vote Democrat but I hate the cultural ideology and the obsession with gender, it drives me fuckin nuts
Never heard of this lady before, but damn, she pretty much just confirmed everything I've believed I've been seeing for the last about 30 years. Insane! THANK YOU, Spike!!
This is the internet, you can find someone to confirm anything you believe.
but to confirm what you believe that also happens to be true is rare.
She's a professor and a well-known commentator on feminist, she's written a lot on feminism in the 90's
@@poochakutti1936 How can one never have heard of her by now!
Imagine being a student in her class and taking notes. Even digital recorders are left gasping at the corner as the bus they've been chasing pulls away.
We ought to endow a library in her name, not try and get her sacked for speaking about the truth.
Thank the cosmos she is still around. She is rare folks, rare.
"Don't teach girls how to protect themselves, teach boys how to behave". Right, but since I'm not responsible for the education of any boys until I'll have my own children (if I'll have boys), I'm gonna learn how to protect myself thank you. I'm not gonna wait until men become "my ideal" of noble masculinity.
Cosigned. I love ur screenname btw.
Amen!!!
June 06 well, girls Should learn to actually protect themselves rather than participate in the harmful protectionism that passes for women's safety measures. Also, they should not unduly and falsely problematise the aftermath of rape and sexual assault and also learn to stop being paranoid, gain the confidence to forgive and move on. Because, after your bruises heal, and they are usually no more than that, a crime is spiritually the perpetrator's problem, after all. If they are more, well then pay your dues. And make the perpetrator pay, through courts or, failing which, violence, to the best of their ability.
June 06 Pinjratod! It's freedom first!
*your ability
Camille is brilliant, with a touch of goofiness, and some caffeine. She's right about a lot of things, but not quite able to convey her points to everyone out there. Her opinions are backed up with experience and a gift for observation, compassion, realness, and love for humanity. She is a person who has been there and done that, and was awake the entire time.
"To me, this is not feminism...This is just a bourgeois culture of excuses and a projection of...like, a prima donna thing of...exposing the wounds; the wounds make you special - the wounds give you privilege." - BRILLANT ANALYSIS!
"a big pile of pudding" is one of the greatest descriptions of somebody I've ever heard
I love her. She's like a scotched-up version of Based Mom.
I like it!
I'd say coked up. Her mouth can't keep up with her brain! It took me a bit to get used to, but, I do like hearing what she has to say!
I recently found a clip of her and Bill Maher from the 90s, and she's speedtalking there too, so if she IS on coke, its safe to say she's been on it for a quite a long time lol...
Conor Corrigan That's why she was dubbed Based Goddess
Anti Feminist Yes, I've since seen the videos of some of their conversations on YT, they're fantastic. Just wish there were more of them.
*TSUNAMI* *of* *knowledge* coming at you at 300 miles per hour
shut up.Jimmy
@@debbieharriman1194 what was wrong with that?
I recognise Ella now, she was on a BBC program refuting the nonsense of some of the feminists there. Good on her
GrumpyCommissar Yeah I remember. how the fuck she worked for buzz feed I will never understand
She used to work for Buzzfeed? Christ alive
Maybe that's what caused her to go against feminism.
She’s gorgeous!
@@Mokkel73 Mm, thicc but in a sexy way. Very womanly.
This woman is brilliant and absolutely right. I go to university in the UK in a former polytechnic, and like myself, a good percentage of the people here are fairly local. And I can tell from the outrageous rape accusation stories, and other little tidbits that there is a significant difference between the culture here and in campuses in the USA, and the more affluent institutions over here, too.
We're not intolerant by any stretch of the imagination - if I sat around our SU I'd probably overhear conversations in several different languages, and of course there's a healthy LGBT community too, including myself. But the women at my uni are not the delicate flowers of more affluent campuses. They're loud, rowdy, working class, you know, the sort of awesome girls with loads of guy friends. They're definitely a world away from the professional victims that Paglia is referring to, and I think such people could learn a lot from them.
That Guy thats pretty bang on, and i must say i recognised your point immediately.
I am against radical feminism because not once have i ever felt unequal to a man.. but then i grew up on a council estate down south.. theres always been a "we are in this together" mentality :)
Ella Whelan and Camille Paglia in one room, this is gonna be good!
I'd vote for her for president.
that's a great idea
She pronounces it bay-nal
Camille lays it out as it is. My mother was arrested for standing up for herself in the 50's... these children wouldn't dream of putting themselves on the line for anything. They are hustlers, who make real women cringe with disgust.
Gore Vidal once said "There is no problem on Earth that couldn't be immediately solved if people would simply do exactly as I advise." This statement is actually true of Camille Paglia. She is a not only a genius, but she also (long ago!) saw past the worthlessness of liberal ideology and it's pathetic dogma. Her common sense needs to be shared abundantly around the internet!
She already had me at 0:04 :D
Absofuckinglutely!!! ;)
Fuck she is savage haha.
She is fantastic and always strikes me as high as a kite because she talks like a machine gun
+Honest John i love this woman, what she stands for and what she says.... however yes she's a little like a coked-up-trans-anorexic-cartman.
+Honest John she has been obsereved to talk like Woody the woodpecker.
Lol. Yea she is so brilliant but speaks as if she has an IV of cocaine running on full drip.
If she is Bi-polar I would love to suffer from this affliction. Paglia has had this demeanor since I first saw her in 1992. Genius is not a symptom of bi polar mania. Idiots who are bi polar do not become genius when manic. They become manic idiots.
I do not agree with all of Paglia's views,but she is as true an intellectual as you will find today. She challenges thought before accepting and is not a slave to an ideology. Maybe those who can't question their own views are suffering from a mental illness.
she perfectly illustrates how the progressives have become regressives. Liberals are such coddled people. They have no clue about how the world works. Liberalism is nothing more than a person needing a babysitter.
(1:30 - 6:00 ) American insularity, the college recreational experience, history and gender identity
(7:26 - 12:36) Transgenderism, trivialities, censorship, peer pressure, personal development
(12:59 -14:55) 1960s sexual liberation, surrender of personal autonomy in 21st century on campus
(14:57 - 21:29) Ignorance of sex and disrespect for sexual difference, bourgeois victim culture
(21:41 - 26:16) Lena Dunham, Hillary Clinton, juvenile feminism, Betty Friedan
(26:35 - 30:13 ) Fanatics within feminism, working class women's moxie
(30:14 - 32:26) Agrarian equality, the weak woman persona in upper middle class feminist utopianism
(32:36 - ) The 2016 US Election candidates*
This is just my rough attempt to index the interview, which is very interesting and covers much ground. Themes that run through it are gender politics, psychology, class difference, patterns in history.
I think the most important point here is that modern SJWs and feminists are from a class of people who are extremely sheltered and extremely entitled, you see it more generally in their politics of which feminism and social justice are really just branches of. When you're raised in this sheltered way all you know is kindness and abundance, things like money and assets are things which they're used to and when they don't have them they ask the question "where is this poverty coming from?", when in reality that is the default state, no one has anything until they build something and then protect that thing and pass it down through the generations, whether that be assets, knowledge, money, whatever.
This is why liberalism and socialism is on the rise, these people just want handing everything because they don't understand that it takes people working really hard to provide the level of luxury we have today and that system is somewhat fragile, if you remove incentive for people to work and provide then you risk all of your luxuries. From that point of view it's not really surprising what their stance on gender politics is and other social issues. Places like safe spaces are luxuries which are afforded because we have a society structured to provide those things which don't exist in nature.
A generation of shitty parents have raised the softest children our society has ever seen, and they feel entitled to everything.
This is brilliant, you phrased something in a way that organizes some recent thoughts concisely:
""where is this poverty coming from?", when in reality that is the default state, no one has anything until they build something and then protect that thing and pass it down through the generations"
I still consider myself a liberal, but what that word seems to mean to most people in 2018 has changed DRASTICALLY in the span of only 5-10 years. Reducing your 'speech' to only those things that are certain not to offend, demanding equality of *outcome* vs equality of *opportunity* (analyzing the causes of outcome variation be damned), and the endless shaming and silencing of would-be allies based on their identity (in most cases, white straight men), cannot end well, and are at odds with classical Liberal values.
@@Matthewtron3030 In fact, modern identity politics, which progressives seem to regard as avant garde, is really a throwback to the collectivist identitarian political movements (national socialism and international socialism) of the 20th century. It's amazing to me that progressives today make so many mouth sounds about being against racism and Nazis without realizing that they are the modern inheritors of Nazi and Communist ideology that has been modified only by switching up some of the characters cast in the roles of good and evil.
I think you'll find that today the 'incentive to work' is less about luxuries and more about paying bills and putting food on the table. Socialism by today's standard is not about acquiring excess but achieving security through the implementation of fundamental needs for all. At that point, the incentive to work embodied in chasing profit is replaced by individual initiative and creativity. Sounds up your alley, no?
@@startmakingsense2071 Not really because more people have been raised out of poverty today than any point in human history and the rate at which people have access to the basics for human survival is accelerating. It's quite the opposite, socialism today is far more focused on luxuries and how people think that there's some minimum level of wealth that is acceptable in society, it's pure narcissism, this idea that you feel like you deserve something for no other reason than you can blurt it out and force other people to pay for it through tax or other redistribution. This is where we get selfish lines like "education is a human right" or "healthcare is a human right", no...none of those things are human rights.
This is great stuff! Ella Whelan: you are beautiful. I saw you on another debate with that milo dude and you rocked! And hats off to Camille Paglia :)
2022. - a Spiked fan, but never heard this interview before. Really good (almost prophet-like) summary of how these issues have actually evolved (esp trans absurdities) over the past 6 years & the dangers for women. Everybody should listen. Absolutely brilliant - thanks.
Her 'prophecy' about Biden was also extremely accurate. I was shocked for a moment seeing she predicted that in 2016.
As the mother of two young men (and one young lady) I have seen all of them navigate the landmines of the social constructs Paglia discusses. My main advice to them is not to put themselves in compromising positions and THINK about what they are doing and what the consequences are. Paglia pulls no punches in her opinions. I grew up in the 70's and have watched the devolvement of the feminist movement. I was always an "equal pay for equal work" thinker, but her discussion of how often women select careers that are not as high paying as the men is something I had not considered. And women often do take off time to stay home with their children which causes a loss of income and slows down their progress for promotions. I am in her dissident wing of feminism.
Paglia's comments on the class and cultural insularity of modern feminism are spot on.
I really enjoy when there's a new Camille video on UA-cam.
I have so much respect for this woman. She articulates for me what I am seeing in my society every day.
Mad respect for this gem of a woman.
Great interview! Insightful, piercing, witty, brilliant. Multiple fantastic take downs and skewering. Some truly great lines!
Camille is great. Her perspectives on history and education are so refreshing to here.
Here hear! I'm a dyslexic with a split personality.
"madness and self absorption"
NAILED IT.
Great interview. I read Sexual Personae when it came out - admittedly to get my balls felt by hot art students; but if I remember right, it was a humanist argument. I will have to read it again - she makes perfect and intuitive sense to me.
+The First Thoughtt
Is that what happens after you read it?
Actually yes... and thanks for asking Mr 'Wood' :)
I read Lena Dunham’s biography for the same reason. Except there it was by Oberlin sociology majors with enough arm pit hair to start a fire.
Excellent line. Thank you.
She's purely brilliant. Not just from the perspective of having a very sound and worldly perspective on so many topics, but her mere enthusiasm and vigor and curiosity for critical thinking.
dem words !
Lol its like natural data compression.. Hours worth of knowledge compressed in minutes...
Great conversation thank you both
This is such a breath of fresh air
This women keep my faith in humanity alive.
I don’t know much about her or her work but my first impression of her was: Her brain works so fast her speach literally can’t catch up with it. Amazing. There are many pseudo intellectuals in this world, who in reality are not that smart, but she is the real deal.
And then the machinegun started to blast holes into modern feminism. If all feminists were like Paglia - I would actually like them.
She is so right on working class women. I had this idea of feminism then I saw it. I was horrified and embarassed. Now I'm constantly saying "oh, not in rural women" but working class women is the same thing.
I LOOOOOOVE this woman! I can't believe I'm just finding her
I really loved, ok, this interview, ok. Camille Paglia is just brilliant, ok.
Thank you Camille!!! Honesty ftw! º•º
I can't get enough of Camille Paglia! I keep searching for more interviews of her. I wish we could vote people into immortality, because of what they contribute to the world...we need her as the voice of common sense!!
Pure Gold bless this woman
I love Camille !
Ask her a question and hold on tight cause she will take you on a whirlwind journey through her mind.
Never stop Camille.
We need more minds like you 😍
I get the impression that Camille's mouth can't keep up with her brain :)
No, I think it's more from probably a lifetime of people trying to cut her off and shout over her. It looks more like a nervous mannerism to me. All be it a practical one.
Or is it that her brain can't keep up with her mouth?
Christopher Hickish A sign of highly intelligent people. That's also the reason why most have ugly handwriting, and are sometimes even a bit messy with paperwork and such... 📝📑📚
Probably a coffee drinker
please support #CamillePaglia. This interviewed is being used to fire her from university.
Absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
Ella is how I always imagined Hermoine Granger to look. So much better than Emma Watson.
Precious Bob Emma Watson is first and foremost an actor, I don't think it would be very interesting to see such an uneven debate between a highly educated intellectual and a young actor with a college degree (not that Watson is stupid, but i think her intellect has some developing left to do)
Thank you Ella Whelan and Camille Paglia!
at 31:10 I applauded my laptop screen
Look up her interview with Joy Behar. Camille says what's on her mind and you can see the shock on Behar's face when she says Hillary is a terrible candidate.
This woman is so intelligent I bet she spends 99% of her day pissed off and annoyed that the people around her can't keep up. It's probably frustrating for her to participate in mundane tasks like going to the grocery store. I bet she wants to smack the cashier on the back of the head as the girl is trying to figure out how much change to give when the bill comes to $15.07 and Camille hands her a $20 bill, 5 singles and .07 cents.
I've loved Camille since I first read Sexual Personae back in 1990. She hasn't slowed down a bit and is as relevant and insightful today in her cultural criticism as ever.
fucking SAVAGE about Dunham but have to agree.
Thank you for this interview, it was great to see Camille being allowed to answer the questions, without interruption.
An upper middle class bourgeois fantasy... yes.
The part about working class women being able to handle ourselves on the street.
Yes. My ancestry is heavy laden with Lancashire mill workers from the Industrial Revolution
into the 1950's...
And yes that makes being able to raise your voice essential.
Very interesting!Side note: this audio would be a transcriptionist's worst nightmare... whew! I'm exhausted.
This woman is why I am a feminist. She's one of the most intelligent people I've ever read.
Scott Brown she's a feminist of her age, not this one
Yeah she's brilliant. Her mind works so fast her mouth can barely keep up LOL. Being totally serious here.
MIS315 I guess she's not for everyone, but I absolutely love her mind. A friend had me read some of her articles and I loved them. I really didn't know it was feminism, it just seemed like common sense. But she made me think. I questioned my own attitudes and evolved in some ways and was validated in others.I don't understand third wave feminism in the way her school of thought affects me. Her approach is inclusive, practical and empowering for everyone. The sensationalist third wave feminists you see on UA-cam seem more like narcissistic illogical agitators than thinkers. But that's UA-cam for you. I'm sure there's a world I'm missing beyond the insanity portrayed here. So while she may not be the current brand of feminism, Camille Paglia opened my eyes and made me a more thoughtful person, better coworker, mate, friend and son. So I'm a fan.
Guess this made me realize I'm definitely into smart woman. :')
This lady is great.
Where are you Camille???it's been years since I've heard her on UA-cam
I can listen to Camille's wisdom for hours!
I disagree with Paglia on so much, yet agree with her on so much, and like her a lot. She's very honest, and even though she leans very far left, she sees the Left as it is and is not afraid to speak openly about what she sees. I wish there were more people on both the Right and the Left like her.
I am so glad I grew up reading Paglia instead of what "feminism" became.
I was raised in Philadelphia, about the same age as Camille Paglia, shared similar experiences, I think she is great and to the point. Men are looking for sex and women are looking for partners, what can possibly go wrong?
"People in the U.S. are talking so much about soft topics like because they feel so cut off from real world events, to such a degree that they can't affect these really important event of our time in any meaningful way"
"Just slap 'gender neutral' on a bathroom and be done with it!"
Holy shit I thought I was the only one. I seriously don't understand why transgenders and bathrooms is such a big issue.
+Strix I agree with her solution, but she seems to blame transgender people for the issue existing?
Transgender people just want to use the bathroom. It's nosy conservatives who are making a massive issue about it.
Also this lady has a few points, mostly about American university culture, but she mainly attacks strawmen. And she completely lost me when she claimed that inclusiveness leads to empires collapsing. She points out historical examples of decadence, not inclusiveness or civil liberties.
+tratan3 "It's nosy conservatives who are making a massive issue about it."
That's only true if you assume that the 'progressive' stance on the issue is objectively correct. The reason it's a massive issue now is because the status quo was disrupted, and the disruption was caused by progressives.
Jesse Fortner
Except that the progressive stance is for men who dress like men to go in the male bathroom. No fuss, no scene. But conservatives have a problem with that, for some reason, and would rather make new laws to force that masculine-looking person into the women's room.
How are progressives "breaking the status quo" on this issue? Other issues, sure, but trans people have always existed.
+Strix I agre, the issue is simpler, but it is being used to try to divert the attention of the working class from the more urgent problems of society, like the military escalation of NATO in the Eastern European border, or the "pivot to Asia" of Obama, which is a cute name for the submission of China, and the decimation of wages and benefits of the working and retired population. I recommend this Marxist analysis of the issue: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/18/pers-m18.html
Trangenderism is a mental illness
I lived in Philadelphia for 30 years and I never got to meet this delightful woman.
Where is Camille Paglia today? What happened to her, I am unable to find anything current? Someone please inform me otherwise.
"Very nice people can be psychopaths, ok?" lol
Yes, very nice and flattering to your face.
MrDLOC11 - Codependency is evil. It is the good cop mask, the goodie two shoes of every religious fanatic, the narcissistic coward hiding from own shadows. There is no honesty in them. Bullying comes in two flavors, twin faces that people hide their true agendas behind. Beware of too-nice and false smiles!
She does go into odd tracks at times but otherwise nails it.
Camille Paglia quoted by NAMBLA: "These days, especially in America, boy-love is not only scandalous and criminal, but somehow in bad taste. On the evening news, one sees handcuffed teachers, priests and Boy Scout leaders hustled into police vans. Therapists call them maladjusted, emotionally immature. But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman, I feel free to protest that men today are pilloried for something that was rational and honorable in Greece at the height of its civilization."
~ Camille Paglia, activist and author
Camille Paglia - -
"Worldwide, in Greece and Rome as in the Near East, China, and Japan, pretty boys have usually been considered by men to be as sexually desirable as women. This seems to me perfectly natural. Judeo-Christianity is unusual in finding the practice of boy-love abhorrent."
This should be played in schools.
these are the things that need to be brought to the table with modern america.
Camille Paglia is a genius ! So refreshing and brilliant summary ! All true and liberating !
brilliant, on point, thank you Camille
This woman should be on MSNBC NPR CNN --- she is what I had thought Maddow was to be.
Sadly, I feel like only Fox would put her on the air....
@@johnoconnor8721 pointlessly vindictive, and probably projection.
@@ChimpingBulldog I just know your ilk. You are so socially frustrated that you feel empowered by hiding behind your anonymity and spouting liberal talking points. Of course you may not be 500 lbs or a pimply face adolescent but you are a sheep following the ass in front of you.
Ty for calling out Lena Dunham for what she is...a problem! The pile of pudding comment wasn't nice, but I laughed...a little.
umm paglia is older now, i wonder when she will die, who is the next paglia.
we need more paglias
Flux Standard Camille’s immortal!
I like to think theres a little Paglia in all of us.
Whenever I watch Camille Paglia on UA-cam, I have to check the speed setting to make sure I didn't accidentally bump it up to 1.5
Meanwhile, I don't know how she does it but Ella Whalen somehow makes "plain and frumpy" pleasantly appealing.
"Waiting for a young gay protesting about gender censorship"? That's Milo Yiannopoulos! You found him.
I love her. I could listen to her for hours. She is the voice of reason.
As I grow up, I'm becoming exponentially disillusioned. I want to believe there's another way, but I feel like this is how the formula will always go: Tough times will produce stronger, more robust people with character who are incentivized to preserve what good they have and who understand value. Easy, decadent times will produce weaker, drippy, oversensitive, lackadaisical, overly tolerant, whiny people who have no visceral understanding of value, who don't feel the weight of privilege, who are so padded and comfortable, they're overly sensitized and are scrupulous scouring for any microscopic imbalance and complaining. It literally seems like the more padded we are, the less happy we are. I don't want this to be true, but I think it is.
History is one long, ugly cyclical story of how this happens over and over. I want to believe things can be different. I want to believe that we can enjoy the comforts of modern technology and the privilege we have today while also remaining proud, patriotic, protective of our land, deeply thankful of our decadence and happily striving for better, but I think that people just seem too fucking dumb to do that. Everyone is asleep. Everyone is reactionary. Everyone just seems like a robot programmed to respond to the stimuli, rather than acting and thinking independently. Everything everyone does is just an emotional reaction and it's why the pendulum has aggressively swung back and forth for thousands of years.
I feel that the only way a civilization could enjoy decadence healthily is if it comprised of intelligent and mindful people, but unfortunately, I feel like those people are only the minority.
I really really want to be wrong about this.
I agree with you... And it sucks. We're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over. But, such is life. I'm just glad I'm allowed a glimpse of the insanity. Yes, I may be surrounded by narcissistic idiots who will end up fucking everything up, but I also really like chocolate and glitter and cozy blankets and looking at the stars and thinking thoughts in my head and feeling feels on my skin. It's not so bad.
@@mgw622 - I don't want us to be right. I'm scared. I love humanity, I love society, I love technology and I'm continuously amazed by what we have. I had surgery a month ago, and I was in awe of the whole experience. The fact that it was painless, how through the wonder of technology, I was kept alive, comfortable and monitored, how every aspect of the experience was illuminated, air conditioned, medicated, monitored, etc. I left the hospital with a renewed love of what we have. I don't want to lose this because these slovenly, privileged, fragile suburban children think that it's just a default part of life to go to the supermarket and be bombarded by an ocean of different, affordable food options.
I hope we're wrong, and these times we're living in are unprecedented. We've never lived like this before, so perhaps things can be different now. But if they aren't, I hope at least that I can release resistance to the concept that this is yet another typical cycle.
@@briannab4770 After living in Thailand and absorbing a lot of Buddhist philosophy second-hand, I'm a lot less attached to things in general... yes technology and humanity and society are amazing... but what will be will be, and it everything has its pros and cons. Spending a week or a day or even just a few hours without technology is also amazing. The universe existed just fine without us for billions of years. And it exists just fine with us. Que sera sera. I find it a much more relaxing way to go about existing, even though it is, at times, very depressing. But, such is the roller coaster of life. Hang in there!
You’re absolutely correct. On the bright side, decline often takes decades or longer.
Camille Paglia is a huge breath of healthy fresh air blowing through the stale and toxic atmosphere of modern feminism.
Why the fuck isn't this woman holding intellectual DJ concerts around the world? She can spit complex words that make coherent meaning in its entirety in a rate that nobody else can. That is passion, and THAT is rare. People today might be colourful or even electrifying, but passionate- like Paglia. No. SERIOUSLY- get her on a stage and rock the shit out of the insularity of our time.
I love it. She is spitting raw truth and I'm a white lower class str8 male. Fucking brilliant! I just got back from P.R. and the latin woman are much more open. I'm now 36 Italian/Ukrainian and I see everything she is saying.
Wow, Camille Paglia has a ton of information in her mind that she cannot wait to get out. But I agree that colleges and professors should not be involved in the personal lives of the students. Bc I’ve met and sat down with more PhDs in classes and things than I ever thought I would, and I can tell you without a doubt that they do not want to be bothered by the students’ lives, bc they’ve dedicated their lives to the study of their craft above all. And I don’t blame them bc I would be the same way if was teaching at any level, grade school or at the high school level.
I wanted to write a snide remark...but I agree with her....amazing.
Her words are struggling to keep up with her thoughts. She has too much to say in a limited timeframe so she speaks so rapidly but her words are still very clear and comprehensible. Someone should analyze her speech patterns. It'd be so interesting.
I agree with her about the yelling thing. I'm from Argentina and I'm, as Camille, an italian descendant. People here talk louder in general, if you compare them with a wasp. But I have lived in two different places in the same city (middle class and working class neighborhoods) and now in a gated upper class community and the sounds are remarkable different. It's like the richer you are more silent becomes your life.
Definitely, but the 'silence' is relative. Some cultures are just louder than others! Wasps lack self confidence. They live in fear.