Camille Paglia, The Female Shock Jock
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Filed in: Media
I admit that I'm amazed at the double standard in
society. Don Imus gets fired for a bad line, Camille
Paglia gets paid for bad lines.
Ms Paglia is a 60 year old social critic, author, and teacher. She's the feminist that other feminists love to hate. She calls herself a 'feminist bisexual egomaniac.'
Whatever.
What is she really? A shock jock without a radio station. Don Imus got fired for uttered a bad one liner which was interpreted as a racial slur. It was both.
Shock jock? Camille is the butch to Anne Heche's Lolita, so the jock monicker is appropriate.
The shock is hidden behind an extensive vocabulary and an innate ability to weave blistering attacks into words with more syllables than most of us experienced in four years of college research papers.
Remember, Don Imus called the basketball team a bunch of 'nappy headed hoes.' He paid a price for comedy one liner gone racial slur.
Camille Paglia gets paid for quotes which cannot be disguised as a one liner, being all dressed up in literary plumage.
How about this? "If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts." Where would we put the sofa and the microwave?
Or, the equally benignless, "Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."
Tell that to my starter wife.
Edging closer to the edge of reality, Paglia complains, "Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."
See? Lunacy disguised as thoughtful prose. Challenge the thought. Or, perish it.
Television may mirror some of what takes place in human life, but the reflection is not accurate. Night after night viewers are bludgeoned with the gritty details of death dealing hatreds run amok. It happens-- but to few of us. The rest of us gaze into a world crowded with exploding bits of reality, rather than an accurate reflection of the reality we know.
She finishes off her sexual slurs with, "Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow."
Not so slow that Camille's mask of slurred verbiage cannot be removed.
Ms Paglia is a 60 year old social critic, author, and teacher. She's the feminist that other feminists love to hate. She calls herself a 'feminist bisexual egomaniac.'
Whatever.
What is she really? A shock jock without a radio station. Don Imus got fired for uttered a bad one liner which was interpreted as a racial slur. It was both.
Shock jock? Camille is the butch to Anne Heche's Lolita, so the jock monicker is appropriate.
The shock is hidden behind an extensive vocabulary and an innate ability to weave blistering attacks into words with more syllables than most of us experienced in four years of college research papers.
Remember, Don Imus called the basketball team a bunch of 'nappy headed hoes.' He paid a price for comedy one liner gone racial slur.
Camille Paglia gets paid for quotes which cannot be disguised as a one liner, being all dressed up in literary plumage.
How about this? "If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts." Where would we put the sofa and the microwave?
Or, the equally benignless, "Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."
Tell that to my starter wife.
Edging closer to the edge of reality, Paglia complains, "Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."
See? Lunacy disguised as thoughtful prose. Challenge the thought. Or, perish it.
Television may mirror some of what takes place in human life, but the reflection is not accurate. Night after night viewers are bludgeoned with the gritty details of death dealing hatreds run amok. It happens-- but to few of us. The rest of us gaze into a world crowded with exploding bits of reality, rather than an accurate reflection of the reality we know.
She finishes off her sexual slurs with, "Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow."
Not so slow that Camille's mask of slurred verbiage cannot be removed.
