Status Updates From Sex, Art, and American Cult...

It's like if the worst person you knew was also a good writer and had some compelling things to say about archetypes

never before have i read a manifesto that so closely follows the shape of my own worldview as paglia’s cancelled preface to sexual personae — i too, “subscribe to a Renaissance cosmology, a divine network of correspondences, where everything is an analogy to everything else,” where “thought and feeling are simultaneous.”

“Cathedrals are strictly symmetrical; Chartres is unusual with its mismatched towers.” I wish so-called defenders of western civilization knew anything about the history they claim to promote

Paglia recording interviews in which she gets completely trounced by the interviewer for her embarrassing takes is deeply hilarious

Camille Paglia go two paragraphs without mentioning that you are Italian, that you grew up in the 60s, or you like rock music challenge

“Most women want to be seduced or lured. The more you study literature and art, the more you see it. Listen to Don Giovanni. Read The Faerie Queene. Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality.” Imagine being this intellectually stunted that you think fictive works by men are authoritative texts on real women’s sexuality lol

I must say Ms Paglia I did adore your cameo in The Watermelon Woman but what is this

paglia is so obsessed with being italian and growing up in the 60s good for her

“the ideal high-WASP actress for the fast-track yuppie era, bright, slick, and self-conscious.”
“Streep’s work doesn’t travel. Try dubbing her for movie houses in India: there’d be nothing left, just that bony, earnest horse face moving its lips.”

Personally if I read such a well written remark of this manner about myself I would probably never get back up. Loving your work, mme Paglia