Is this worth reading?
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Dominic Richardson
Caleb Davis
Yes, Paglia is a very fun writer even if you don't agree with her, and she has an insightful take on feminism and gender roles in modern society. Her long essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders" is good too, and Glittering Images.
She has strong opinions on a lot of things and she's clearly marked by her preferred critical frameworks (Freud) but she transcends stuff like that and is just an interesting intellectual t b h.
Ryan Perry
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Sebastian Jackson
It has been influential in the academic world, mainly as something to be knocked down.
But please, just don't get hooked on her meme-ry on youtube: that part of her career is truly worthless.
Isaac Hill
Actually not far off the mark.
Jose Anderson
>But please, just don't get hooked on her meme-ry on youtube: that part of her career is truly worthless.
All media intellectuals are horrible, and it's always better to just read their actual work, which can actually be decent literature. In this case, Sexual Personae is great, and it's one of the few pieces of criticism that's genuinely provocative and funny.
Hudson Bell
How so? Do you deny Paglia's pic related is an astute summary of our generations misunderstanding of the sexes?
I agree it is very sad she has to throw in with conservatives/AEI on youtube in order to be heard. It speaks volumes on the exclusionary and dogmatic nature of feminism in 2017.
Elijah Watson
please give link for essay
Cameron Gonzalez
didnt finish it, my impression was similar to this review:
>But ''Sexual Personae'' is tainted with the kind of symbol-mongering reductionism that sees one thing in everything, and despite its considerable virtues, it left me thinking of Earl Long's pithy appraisal of Henry Luce and his notoriously single-minded magazines: ''Mr. Luce is like a man that owns a shoe store and buys all the shoes to fit himself. Then he expects other people to buy them.''
nytimes.com
and for provocative things i would go straight to weininger, no feminist has surpassed him.
Owen Scott
>How so? Do you deny Paglia's pic related is an astute summary of our generations misunderstanding of the sexes?
I haven't said that I'm taking the part of her opposers, I think that her voice was a legit one and that her work was not dishonest, nor it did lack insight.
Still, her videos are untolerable.
>It speaks volumes on the exclusionary and dogmatic nature of feminism in 2017.
Paglia is more famous than any other eminent feminist thinker you could think of. Not so exlusionary after all.
I agree, and I genuinely love her writing style. It really taught me how to be even zestier.