#camille paglia

[esqueletosgays]

THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996)

Director: Cheryl Dunye Cinematography: Michelle Crenshaw

[caostalgia]

«La Tierra está sembrada de ruinas de imperios que se creían eternos.»

—Camille Paglia

[bitter69uk]

Released on this day (10 November 1975): Horses, the groundbreaking debut album by shamanistic high priestess of punk poetry (and the woman described by Salvador Dali as “a gothic crow”), Patti Smith. “I have loved Robert Mapplethorpe ever since I saw his bleak, half-transvestite portrait of Patti Smith, posing like an anorexic Frank Sinatra on her first album, Horses,” Camille Paglia wrote of the iconic record cover. “I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.”

[victusinveritas]

[deadpanwalking]

[lanaspepsicoke]

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, 1990

[slumberwall]

The Hatred of Women

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

"Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture. We could make an epic catalog of male achievements, from paved roads, indoor plumbing and washing machines, to eyeglasses, antibiotics and disposable diapers. We enjoy safe, fresh milk and meat, and vegetables and tropical fruits heaped in snowbound cities. When I cross the George Washington Bridge or any of America’s great bridges, I think: men have done this. Construction is a sublime male poetry. When I see a giant crane passing on a flatbed truck, I pause in awe and reverence as one would for a church procession.

"What power of conception, what grandiosity: these cranes tie us to ancient Egypt, where monumental architecture was first imagined and achieved. A contemporary woman clapping on a hard hat merely enters a conceptual system invented by men. If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.”

― Camille Paglia, "Sexual Personae" 1990

[fanboy-feminist]

Here are some of my favorite graphics from the new Contrapoints video

[mogwai-movie-house]

"Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women." - Camille Paglia

[linsaad]

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.

#Camille Paglia

[hermitthrush]

Art is order. But order is not necessarily just, kind, or beautiful. Order may be arbitrary, harsh, and cruel. Art has nothing to do with morality... The artist makes art not to save humankind but to save himself.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1991) | Chapter 1. “Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art”. Maximum Asher Lev.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

- Camille Paglia

[bitter69uk]

“As a sexual persona, Bernhard is unique in the contemporary arts. She is completely American. No other country can produce this kind of brashly individualistic woman, harsh, aggressive, raunchy and physical, with an imagination drenched in thirty flamboyant years of popular culture … Sandra Bernhard has Lenny Bruce’s brooding menace and quick, razor-sharp mind. She re-creates the brainy neuroticism and earthy sensuality of Beatnik women, with their gloomy hipster realism. By her gutsy insistence on singing – in an ever-improving but often thin or fractured voice – Bernhard has rejoined stand-up to its origins in vaudeville, where music and comedy were brassily interwoven … she has the sophisticated worldliness of gay men and the gorgeous theatricality of drag queens … Bernhard embraces the great female personae excluded by the prudish Steinem politburo: bitch, stripper, whore, lady, fashion model …”

/ Camille Paglia’s musings from her think piece “The Female Lenny Bruce: Sandra Bernhard” in the San Francisco Examiner, 6 December 1992 /

Happy birthday to perennially fierce and in-your-face comedienne, singer, actress, authoress, conceptualist, performance artist and Playboy playmate - the divine Sandra Bernhard (born 6 June 1955)! How fitting she was born during pride month! Like so many Gen X-ers, Bernhard first came to my attention as a teenager when she was a regular anarchic (or as The Village Voice put it, “rivetingly obnoxious”) presence on Late Night with David Letterman. And seeing her 1990 film Without You I’m Nothing in a nearly empty cinema (was it The ByTowne? The Mayfair?) as a university student in Ottawa, Ontario blew my freaking mind. Pictured: portrait by Timothy White (circa late 1980s, I estimate?).

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

Gurl the Swiftologist is so insufferable. He has a podcast where he called Taylor “his Nazi Barbie.” Idc if it’s a reference to something else or if he thinks it’s a joke. It’s sick and twisted.

EW? (send the link) I doubt he’s smart enough to know this but he could be referencing Camille Paglia, a feminist scholar, calling Taylor Swift an “[O]bnoxious Nazi Barbie” in her 2015 article critiquing Taylor Swift’s #GirlSquad.

If you want to read more, I LOVE The Daily Beast’s meta article on the fallout and discourse Paglia’s article caused: