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

I have been a Paglia fan for years, and I believe she has truly flipped from the loony left and just does this stuff (quote below) to give her cred and preserve her liberal pedigree. Voting for/supporting Bernie, Stein and Kamala Harris are acts squarely at odds with her obvious sanity and intelligence.

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. I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election. Since last Fall, I've had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.

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This woman actually presents reasonable arguments for common ground between conservatives and liberals. I applaud her common sense yet intelligent approach.

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Camille writes about history, literature, art, music, sex, psychology, sociology, politics and pop culture. There is one topic she avoids... Economics. If you don't care about economics then it's pretty easy to vote left wing.

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This is true, but there is left wing and then there's Jill Stein and Kamala Harris. I guess it's a protest/avant garde sort of thing.

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The laborers who build and maintain these marvels are recognized only if they can be shoehorned into victim status. But if they dare to think for themselves and vote differently from their liberal overlords, they are branded as rubes and pariahs.

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The Gospel truth!

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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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So why does Ms. Paglia support candidates like Bernie and Jill who do just this?

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Their central text is (for now) The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, but they've officially changed their stance to include men and fathers who breastfeed. The actual wording of their policy is wonderful: "It is now recognized that some men are able to breastfeed."

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This is just fupped duck.

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Greer, a literary scholar who was one of the great pioneers of second-wave feminism, has always denied that men who have undergone sex-reassignment surgery are actually "women." Her Cardiff lecture (on "Women and Power" in the twentieth century) eventually went forward, under heavy security.

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This chick gets it!

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And in 2014, Gender Hurts, a book by radical Australian feminist Sheila Jeffreys, created a heated controversy in the United Kingdom. Jeffreys identifies transsexualism with misogyny and describes it as a form of "mutilation."

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So does this one.

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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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Damn!

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It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender.

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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.

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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.

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Amen!

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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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Well said.

Camille Paglia is one of my favorite actual feminists.

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t is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender. Biology has been programmatically excluded from women's studies and gender studies programs for almost 50 years now. Thus very few current gender studies professors and theorists, here and abroad, are intellectually or scientifically prepared to teach their subjects

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I'm literally shaking (with joy).