Camille Paglia

The movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture as a Civilisation is starting to unravel. Show less «

History must be seen clearly and fairly. Obstructive traditions arose, not from men's hatred or enslavement of women, but from the natural division of labor that had developed over thousands of years during the agrarian period and that once immensely benefited and protected women, permitting them to remain at the hearth to care for helpless infants and children. Over the past century, it was labor-saving appliances, invented by men and spread by capitalism, that liberated women from daily drudgery. Show less «

I still stand by every word of my date-rape manifesto. As a career college teacher, I want our coddling, authoritarian universities to end all involvement with or surveillance of students' social lives and personal interactions, verbal or otherwise. If a crime is committed it should be referred to the police. Otherwise, college administrations should mind their own business and focus on facilitating and funding education in the classroom. Show less «

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

In France, Italy, Spain and Latin America, many ambitious women seem to have found a formula for asserting power and authority in the workplace, while still projecting sexual allure and even glamour. This is the true feminine mystique, which cannot be taught but flows from an instinctive recognition of sexual differences. In today's punitive atmosphere of sentimental propaganda about gender, the sexual imagination has understandably fled into the alternate world of online pornography, where the rude but exhilarating forces of primitive nature rollick, unconstrained by religious or feminist moralism. Show less «

[observation, 2013] Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value. But those once proud avant-garde gestures have lost their relevance in our diffuse and technology-saturated era, in which there is no longer an ossified high-culture establishment to rebel against. On the contrary, the fine arts are alarmingly distant or marginal to most young people today. Show less «

Sex education has triggered recurrent controversy, partly because it is seen by religious conservatives as an instrument of secular cultural imperialism, undermining moral values. It's time for liberals to admit that there is some truth to this and that public school should not promulgate any ideology. The liberal response to conservatives' demand for abstinence-only sex education has been to condemn the imposition of 'fear and shame' on young people. But perhaps a bit more self-preserving fear and shame might be helpful in today's hedonistic, media-saturated environment. My generation of baby-boom girls boldly rebelled against the culture of virginity of the Doris Day 1950s, but we left chaos in our wake. Young people are now bombarded prematurely with sexual images and messages. Adolescent girls, routinely dressing in seductive ways, are ill-prepared to negotiate the sexual attention they attract. Sex education has become incoherent because of its own sprawling agenda. Show less «

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. Show less «

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Show less «

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Hillary Clinton has ridden on Bill Clinton's coattails at every stage in her career and has accomplished exactly nothing. In fact, the sum total of her accomplishments have been... the leading feats... the destabilization of North Africa is one of them. I feel that she is one of the most incompetent and corrupt politicians in my lifetime in America. Show less «

If men are becoming obsolete, as some feminists argue, then women will soon be extinct. A peevish, grudging rancor against men has been one of the most unpalatable and unjust features of second and third-rate feminism. Men's faults, failings and foibles have been seized on and magnified into gruesome bills of indictment - including by ideologues at our leading universities. Is it any wonder then, that so many high-achieving young women, despite all the happy talk about their academic success, find themselves in the early stages of their careers in chronic uncertainty or anxiety about their prospects for an emotionally fulfilled private life? When an educated culture routinely denigrates masculinity and manhood, then women will be perpetually stuck with boys. Show less «