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- From: uunet!idacrd!desj@ncar.UCAR.EDU (David desJardins)
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- Subject: Re: camille paglia
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:13:43 GMT
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- Camille Paglia is an anti-feminist who calls herself various other
- things. It's easy to understand why feminists are angered by her. It's
- mostly not just because of the substance of her ideas, but because she
- actually seems to hate and despise women who stand up for equality. For
- example, she frequently writes of her sense of just retribution when a
- woman acts in a way which she does not approve of, and is raped and/or
- murdered in return.
-
- Her moral philosophy seems to be based on a notion of natural law. From
- the facts that men dominate and rape women in pre-civilized societies
- (one can argue about whether this is a fact, but she takes it as one),
- she concludes that rape and domination are natural aspects of the
- relationship between men and women. Of course even she does not
- conclude from this that they are good things. But she does conclude
- that because they are natural, it is unreasonable to expect them to be
- eliminated, and anyone who behaves as if they do not exist is behaving
- irrationally and deserves whatever they get.
-
- David desJardins
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