1/ #CamillePaglia is amazing, and so relevant today: "My dissertation at Yale was on androgyny...I explored it in history and realized that the movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture, as a civilization is starting to unravel."
2/ "People who live in such times feel that they're very sophisticated, cosmopolitan. But from the perspective of historical distance you can see it's a culture that no longer believes in itself...you see the barbarians begin to mass on the outside of the culture."
3/ "A sex change operation opens one door, and closes many others...the transgender definition has become a convenient label for young people who may simply feel alienated for other reasons...in the 1950s they might have become a beatnik, in the 60s a hippie"
4/ "The entire function of the universities, instead of intellectual inquiry, it's turned into a branch of social engineering"
That was from < 10min of an 80min talk. What a badass! She was I.D.W. decades before there was an I.D.W. #ProCivilization
That was from < 10min of an 80min talk. What a badass! She was I.D.W. decades before there was an I.D.W. #ProCivilization
(Note BTW that Paglia considers herself to be transgender, and has for a long time, without reassignment surgery).
