Letters to the Editor
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Why does Salon keep Paglia?
I suspect Salon keeps Paglia on board because her articles generate a huge number of hits which is good for advertising revenues.
In order to demonstrate that such revenues pale in comparison to the hatred which we hold for Paglia's writing and our sheer astonishment at her continual employment here, I suggest that each one of us take a good look at the ads currently featured and swear not to ever buy their products, and to tell at least one friend how crappy each product is.
Maybe that will convince Salon that when we say we want Paglia gone, we are not actually being ironic/sarcastic/coy/joking in any way.
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Oh my. Queue the shrill Clintonian shitstorm in 3...2...1.....
Camille, if you had only cried at the end of your piece, you wouldn't have to endure the beating you're about to get on these boards.
Then they'd love you.
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Why aren't we shutting this twit up?
Since when did CP get credentials in family psychiatry? And why is she on Salon? Joan Walsh, are you reading this? Please get this twit off Salon's pages. ASAP.
I am not going to vote for Hillary, but CP's rant is simply diabolical and gutterish.
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Spot on about the Clinton's. I'm glad somebody finally said it.
Now prepare to be crucified by everyone's favorite self-righteous victims, the Hillbots.
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Feminazi, Feminazi, Feminazi, Female Nazi, A Nazi who is Female
Hillary's disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package
Joan Walsh, I honestly cannot believe you publish someone like this. I get a stitch in my stomach every time I have to read the word feminazi in Paglia's column. It's not even her word--a friend of that doped-up liar Rush Limbaugh coined the damned thing.
Do you remember what the Nazis did, by the way?
Sign me sad.
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Who's In for a Paglia Contest?
Hey, everybody,
Since there's really nothing new to say about yet another column by the world's most worn-out and predictable pundit, let's hold a contest on the letters page and see who can come closest to writing Camille Paglia's exact column as it will appear next month.
I'm serious... we can't, of course, award any real prizes, I guess, but the winner can have bragging rights. It should be easy for some of our regular contributors (you sure as heck don't have to be Nostradamus), so try your hand.
As a hint, I'd suggest one way to go about it is to juggle some of those "refrigerator poetry" magnets, throw 'em on the table, and randomly mix in words like "Hillary," "Obama," "Madonna," and an ancient cultural reference from the 1980s or two. Then, when you actually write the column, try doing something else at the same time, like vacuuming the living room or watching reruns of "Law and Order," so you can get the appropriate half-assed distracted feel.
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Zeppelin... overrated rip-off artists
I went through a huge Zeppelin phase in high school. Back then I thought they were just the most amazing band to ever grace the face of the Earth. But hearing other artists (e.g. Clapton, Hendrix) talk about the blues lead me down another branch in my musical path, and I sought out the original recordings of Black American Blues artists.
I was pretty blown away, and lost a lot of respect for Zeppelin when I started to realize nearly all of their first 2 albums were just Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf and Robert Johnson tunes "written" by Page/Plant. Now I know they weren't the only white artists to do this, but they sure took it to another level.
It kind of makes me sick to see them get such slavish hero-worship... it's fundamentally unjust.
yes, to some extent all art may be derivative of prior generations, but Zeppelin didn't really re-interpret or build on what came before them, they just repackaged it. Sad that the "market" doesn't really reward creativity, but it does reward exploitation.
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Bravo!
OK, Salon, now I get it. "Camille Paglia" is really just an ironic, left-wing version of Stephen Colbert.
Your attention to detail is extraordinary:
...the neo-feminist humanities professor
...the pretentious literary references
...the earnest, yet patronizing adulation of the "common folk"
...the condescending, obtuse commentary on American politics
In a past article, "she" even cited a Drudge Report online poll to "prove" that Americans hate Hillary (fatuously assuring us that it was scientific because "they used cookies"). Truly hilarious. You even created a "Camille Paglia" Wikipedia entry!
At first I was worried, because this kind of self-defeating, snarky drivel against the front-runners (whether from Maureen Dowd or Arianna Huffington) helped defeat Gore and Kerry, leading to the worst president ever. But now I see it for the brilliant satire that it is.
Again, bravo! And master stroke.
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bobby joe
here's my contest entry.
Girls are bad.
Mitt Romney ROCKS
I'm unpredictable!
Camille
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...And I have one more opinion I'd like to share.
I am a huge Camille Paglia fan. I enjoy her column, and am not surprised she takes so much abuse here.
The sad thing about Salon, is that so many of its readers are still political hacks on some level... you're either for us or your against us. Whether that "us" is democrats, republicans, feminists, christians, Klansmen, etc. Rarely do you see any discussion of actual ideas; most comment threads boil down to a bunch of personal insults traded between liberal "intellectuals" and whatever dim-witted Republican blowhards show up.
Camille stands above it all, an intellectual voice unbiased by an agenda, and all she takes for it is abuse. You people are so pathetic. 99% of the comments attacking her are nothing but baseless ad hominem insults. If you disagree with what she says, try and make an intelligent point as to why. But don't just resort to playground name calling... 8 years olds, dude.
Or don't, I don't really care. You're the ones who are killing any sort of intellectual debate here.
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Oh, One More Hint for That Contest.
Listen to a lot of Rush Limbaugh. Read Matt Drudge. Borrow liberally.
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Camille Paglia's most recent diatribe
Piffle,somebody save me from amateur shrinks.
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Spot on, David Larry d, Spot on....
I've noticed the same sentiment. "Forget rational discourse, let's just kill the bitch!"
Talk about hitting a nerve. Well done, Ms Paglia.
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Ugh
I have yet to be able to stomach more than five paragraphs of her bile. If there's anything I've learned from the past eight years, it's to doubt anyone who talks with absolute certainty of events that can be interpreted in thousands of different ways.