{"id":8277,"date":"2013-12-16T06:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/camille-paglia-defends-men\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T06:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:32:49","slug":"camille-paglia-defends-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/camille-paglia-defends-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia Defends Men . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . and in the process<\/a> kicks the candy ass of Maureen Dowd for whom "men have played so recklessly with the globe 'they nearly broke it.' "   You can break your finger nail, sweetie, but not the globe.  Girly-girl talk!  While C. P. is a good antidote to P. C., she cannot be awarded a plenary MavPhil<\/em> endorsement because of the silly things<\/a> she has said  about philosophy and women in philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Camille, the one on the right,  well deserves a partial endorsement.  Here<\/a> is a delightful Pagliaism: \u201dLeaving sex to feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The image above suggests that the the ideal woman might well be a trinity:  Maureen in bed; the mannish Camille in the parlor for serious dialectic of the non-physical sort; the Virgin Mary (not depicted)  on a pedestal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note the dialectic  (in the Continental sense this time) of revelation and concealment displayed by the coquettish Maureen: one eye invisible, the low-cut top inviting the eye downward, while the gals to her left are bundled up like Muslims.
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. . . and in the process kicks the candy ass of Maureen Dowd for whom "men have played so recklessly with the globe 'they nearly broke it.' "   You can break your finger nail, sweetie, but not the globe.  Girly-girl talk!  While C. P. is a good antidote to P. C., she cannot be … Continue reading “Camille Paglia Defends Men . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}