Camille Paglia bringing the heat (and the truth)!!!

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In it she argues among other things, that the pharmaceutical industry, having lost income when routine estrogen therapy for menopausal women was abandoned because of its health risks, has been promoting the relatively new idea of transgenderism in order to create a permanent class of customers who will need to take prescribed hormones for life.

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I know this is just anecdotal however there are so many stories like this concerning the pharmaceutical industry it's hard to believe there is not an unspoken systemic conspiracy in the sector, driven by money of course. This is especially true with cancer treatment.

Interesting read. Long but good.

"Does not compute"

I humbly suggest that you take some time to learn a little about Ms. Paglia. She is an intellectual in the best sense of the word with a mind that is not to be trifled with. Yes, she is a liberal and a feminist but she is unafraid of challenging either conservative or liberal orthodoxy. Indeed, it says a great deal about what has happened to our politics that Camille Paglia, of all people, often finds herself opposing, at least in part, the liberalism of today.

By the way, I do not share Paglia's political views and would never vote for a socialist like Sanders or Stein. I do respect her well considered brand of liberalism and feminism.

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Does not compute

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The best way to think of Camille is to compare traditional liberal positions and the overreach that follows:
IE, the EPA was created to clean up air and water pollution. Now, they label CO2 as pollution.
The Civil rights movement wanted blacks to be able to attend white colleges. Now, they want safe spaces at those colleges.

Camille is a traditional feminist. They wanted women to be free to pursue lifestyles previously restricted to them. Now they have morphed into a man hating movement.

Her status as a Democrat is the same story. She's a JFK Democrat who sees the current Dem party as overreaching.

She is a huge fan of classical Western Civilization. One of her specialties is Ancient Athens. I highly recommend her book Vamps and Tramps.

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but they are intellectually honest

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A good example of this with Camille is abortion. Her position is 'I'm very pro choice. Abortion should be available to any woman for any reason. HOWEVER, don't insult my intelligence by claiming 'it's not a baby.' Of course it's a baby."

Some of my favorite quotes from the article;

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Liberalism of the 1950s and '60s exalted civil liberties, individualism, and dissident thought and speech. "Question authority" was our generational rubric when I was in college. But today's liberalism has become grotesquely mechanistic and authoritarian: It's all about reducing individuals to a group identity, defining that group in permanent victim terms, and denying others their democratic right to challenge that group and its ideology. Political correctness represents the fossilized institutionalization of once-vital revolutionary ideas, which have become mere rote formulas. It is repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates.

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The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one's birth gender for life. Intersex ambiguities can occur, but they are developmental anomalies that represent a tiny proportion of all human births. In a democracy, everyone, no matter how nonconformist or eccentric, should be free from harassment and abuse. But at the same time, no one deserves special rights, protections, or privileges on the basis of their eccentricity. I reject state-sponsored coercion to call someone a "woman" or a "man" simply on the basis of his or her subjective feeling about it.

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Thanks for sharing. If more liberals thought this way, the world would be a much smoother place to live.

She's a liberal whom I respect and enjoy reading her columns.

I have been a fan ever since I read Sex, Art and American Culture when it came out in 1992

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I have a serious crush on this woman's mind.

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agreed....I certainly don't agree with her candidate choices and some views, but she definitely brings heavy intellectual artillery to her battles