I’ve Been Anxiously Awaiting Camille Paglia’s Take On Palin

And she doesn’t disappoint

…Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.

Read the whole thing. To my mind Paglia is the most astute cultural observer we have right now; while I certainly do not agree with many of her positions her insight and candor are second to none.

3 Responses to “I’ve Been Anxiously Awaiting Camille Paglia’s Take On Palin”

1. Ebola says:

   September 10, 2008 at 10:50 am

   It was like watching a boxing match or a quarter of hard-hitting football — or one of the great light-saber duels in “Star Wars.” (Here are the two Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, going at it with Darth Maul in “The Phantom Menace.”)

   Uhm….Can I pull out the race card now? Oh, wait…she’s a democrat. It’s okay for them to stereotype two whiteys fightin the black tattooed dude. lol

2. Gunslinger says:

   September 10, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   The thing I’ve always liked about Paglia was her genuine commitment to feminism and her willingness to buck the NOW hypocrites.

3. Dave J says:

   September 11, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   There’s a million things I disagree with her on, but I’ve always liked and admired her. She pulls no punches and neither spouts nor puts up with, bullshit.