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Camille Paglia

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Writer and critic known for her coke-fueled rants during interviews, contrasted favorably with Fran Lebowitz for having created a wide array of tangible products over the years.

Mentions (40)
"I believe that my personal mixture of Paglia inflected gay supremacism which would structurally place control of most of America's military apparatus into the hands of driven gay men and enby-eliminationism more closely reflect the views of the average working class American."
Kamala would have won if her politics were more like mine · u/PM-me-beef-pics · ↑718 · 2024-11-08
"Ideally, I'd like a Paglia-esque explanation of this phenomenon, but I'll settle for an evopsych one."
Gang rapes are so fascinating as a sociological phenomenon. · u/orangeneptune48 · ↑529 · 2025-02-19
"Because Italian Americans don't have that many greats and she's the best obviously"
Upvote if you want Camille Paglia on the pod · u/Snoo-14479 · ↑469 · 2020-08-02
"I noticed another thing she said in the debate was that the sexual revolution has left a lot of people feeling confused, and that it was easier for people when they had clear norms to adhere to, and at least the women rebelling against those norms like Camille Paglia and Betty Friedan were smart eno"
How does Anna view herself in relation to other women? · u/heartsaglow · ↑294 · 2023-10-07
"I have joked about anna becoming a libertarian like paglia but after listening to an ep from last month it's really apparent now. she's like "i would have no problem paying taxes.. as long as it's actually benefiting the lives of me and those around me""
anna and dasha in 10 years · u/bitchyfuxkjngbltch34 · ↑141 · 2021-06-03
"Just woke up from a dream that I was at a cocktail party with Anna, Camille Paglia, Steve Bannon, Zizek, Adam Friedland and Azealia Banks.... this means I should kill myself right"
Time to end it all · u/tiddeemilk29 · ↑133 · 2021-02-08
"Paglia has the quote about Dworkin as The Girl Who's Always Getting Sick, something like that, this was The Guy Who's Always Being Turned Down."
"Back when I still had TikTok, I looked up some old vids of Camille Paglia going on her coke-fueled rants during interviews for entertainment. Anyway, one video that popped up was a Fran Leibowitz monologue where she referred to Paglia as 'small town'. While Paglia surely is a colorful character, at "
I can't stand Fran Leibowitz · u/wizard_of_wozzy · ↑123 · 2025-08-19
"I gave the anecdote Camille Paglia used in her book 'Free Women, Free Men.' I remarked that women during the 60s fought university administrators for the freedom of choice as well as consequence. They did not want to be coddled by restrictions like curfews that were meant to protect them from being "
I spent the weekend in Portland… · u/ImmaKittenMew · ↑101 · 2021-11-17
""hey rsp here's something my ex did (...) paglia talks about this""
my favourite type of post · u/sacredheart27 · ↑91 · 2022-06-19
"Who else remembers when camille paglia called taylor swift a nazi barbie"
"and I'm imagining meeting Paglia at a party and initially being like wow this person's so interesting and rad, and then the more she talks that "how do I end this conversation" feeling starts setting in, an hour later as she's still ranting about pussies being shellfish and chythonian transvestites "
Reading sexual personae · u/Pradogy13 · ↑78 · 2021-09-29
"me (enlithgened intellectual); no no and NO catergoraically no she is a neolibreal plz read this camille paglia salon article from 2005"
freind trying 2 make polite converstation: do u liek lizzo · u/abdlpolpot · ↑76 · 2019-09-20
"anna's virtues account for the historical dominance of men while dasha has what paglia would call an overpowering and alluring chaotic state of wild nature. paglia writes, "the quarrel between apollo and dionysus is the quarrel between the higher cortex and the older limbic and reptilian brains.""
anna is apollonian and dasha is dionysian · u/MedicalFig · ↑70 · 2022-10-18
"Extracted from Provocations, Camille Paglia. The ladies mentioned they hadn't seen this image in the newest episode."
Camille Paglia dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 8 · u/Working-Flatworm-534 · ↑70 · 2024-07-20
"Once again the weak ass millenials need to refer the authority of a boomer. There isnt even an ironic safe space to call yourself libertarian. She is tenured faculty she is safe. She totally negates online and talks about farms and loud minorities on the street defending themselves, and the working "
Paglia's boomer tendencies are just too cringe · Sexpositionsguy · ↑54 · 2019-09-06
"I want some good books to read instead. I prefer fiction but non-fiction is cool as well. Don't say Paglia, I'm not reading that shit."
Recommend me some good books · u/YouDumbMoon · ↑54 · 2021-06-27
"Im a girl, pretty much only attracted to women but find certain men sexy. basically a paglia lesbian"
mtf trans ppl gatekeeping Phantom Penis · u/chem-trail-mix · ↑50 · 2020-07-07
"The allegation has been rampant in modern feminism - most recently expressed by an addled Sally Field at the Emmy awards - that a world ruled by women would be just and peaceful. Women, according to this view, are naturally benevolent and collaborative. Never mind Boudicca and Margaret Thatcher, wit"
"The sisterhood myth" Camille Paglia · [deleted] · ↑48 · 2023-01-31
"That emrata completely misused that Camille Paglia quote from Sexual Personae?? It's so obvious that she just read from Paglia's wiki quote page and has not read any of her work. Emrata's essay is the antithesis of paglia work - which is women can choose to express their sexually but must be ready t"
as a paglia Stan!!! Anyone else annoyed... · u/daddyslilgirl17 · ↑45 · 2019-08-13
"i know paglia amorality of art blah blah i'm just tired of every artist being a fucking coomer"
any artists that weren't crazy perverts? · u/blankets_stare_ · ↑45 · 2022-04-04
"I just started today and got through the chapter "Sex and Violence, or Art and Nature" and it's steeped deeeeep in the sexual metaphor of woman/nature vs man/society, woman/emotion vs man/rationalism. So much so that I'm having trouble wanting to continue the book at all. She asserts this metaphor i"
Has anyone read Paglia's Sexual Personae? · u/aziaa · ↑38 · 2021-06-08
"Their rivalry was dumb because Paglia can only hope to one day be even remotely in the same realm as Sontag."
Susan Sontag is so much better than Camille Paglia. · u/Disgrace89 · ↑37 · 2020-02-14
"Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that w"
Favorite Paglia quote? · u/[deleted] · ↑36 · 2022-04-04
"From the 1960s to 1990s, there existed a type of cultural critic/public intellectual in NYC with a biting, acerbic sense of humor, who was eccentric and somewhat maladjusted, yet undeniably chic. Think Paglia, Gore Vidal, Fran Lebowitz, I'll even throw in Susan Sontag"
What happened to the NYC Cultural Critic archetype? · u/degasb00ty · ↑36 · 2024-09-05
"always on Twitter Anna ain't bout this, Anna ain't bout that My girl a cultural commentator on fucking Patreon and them She, she they say that bitch don't be trad SHUT THE FUCK UP! Y'all bluechecks ain't know shit All ya motherfuckers talk about Anna ain't no Paglia Anna ain't this Anna a fascist SH"
Fuckers in Dimes telling me · u/aaroncranston · ↑34 · 2021-01-25
"but everything aside i think camille paglia was very right when she said women should develop the tactics of gay men, gay men really do enjoy their sexuality alot and they are fearless."
gay men dont get much appreciation the way they deserve · u/sadean-girl · ↑33 · 2024-06-22
"Said...largely kept his distance from the anti-PC brigade, but he struck up a correspondence with Camille Paglia and, in speeches, issued warnings about the rise of identity politics in universities."
Edward Said: Original Dirtbag Leftist? · u/FatimaMansioned · ↑32 · 2021-04-29
"I'd like to keep notes on who Dasha & Anna read....Camille Paglia, Slovoj Zizek etc. but I don't."
Red Scare Required Reading · u/chewablecurfew · ↑28 · 2023-03-22
"Their whole job is just talking shit about public figures and minor internet personalities, like being a critic is best job ever. Sorry but they aren't even that knowledgable like Paglia, Tom Wolfe etc lmao."
Anna and Dasha live the dream life !! · u/Calm_Helicopter_2127 · ↑27 · 2023-04-06
"Extracted from Provocations, Camille Paglia. The ladies mentioned they hadn't seen this image in the newest episode."
Camille Paglia dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 8 · u/Working-Flatworm-534 · ↑70 · 2024-07-20
"The allegation has been rampant in modern feminism - most recently expressed by an addled Sally Field at the Emmy awards - that a world ruled by women would be just and peaceful."
"The sisterhood myth" Camille Paglia · u/[deleted] · ↑48 · 2023-01-31
"Their rivalry was dumb because Paglia can only hope to one day be even remotely in the same realm as Sontag"
Susan Sontag is so much better than Camille Paglia. · u/Disgrace89 · ↑37 · 2020-02-14
"Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience"
Favorite Paglia quote? · u/[deleted] · ↑36 · 2022-04-04
"Think Paglia, Gore Vidal, Fran Lebowitz, I'll even throw in Susan Sontag"
What happened to the NYC Cultural Critic archetype? · u/degasb00ty · ↑36 · 2024-09-05
"This was when she was promoting her last book "Free Women, Free Men". There was some concern that the event might get attacked by Antifa. Paglia had asked for a police escort to assure her safety."
"i think camille paglia was very right when she said women should develop the tactics of gay men, gay men really do enjoy their sexuality alot and they are fearless"
gay men dont get much appreciation the way they deserve · u/sadean-girl · ↑33 · 2024-06-22
"Camille Paglia comes to mind as a good example—even if it's mostly just in her interviews and her first two essay collections."
"The eating disorders that plague bourgeois feminism are the regressive rituals of docile daughters who, on some level, refuse to fend for themselves."
"Gooning, in the postmodern sense, signifies a retreat into a solipsistic world where technology magnifies primal urges"
Camille Paglia on Gooning: · u/Suitable-Aardvark862 · ↑21 · 2024-06-03
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