Camille Paglia

19 Jan: Camille Paglia – in pusuit of manly equality

In pursuit of manly equality BARI WEISS The Wall Street Journal January 01, 2014 12:00AM   “WHAT you’re seeing is how a civilisation commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. This self-described “notorious Amazon feminist” isn’t telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out of fashion; Americans undervalue manual labour; schools neuter male students; opinion-makers deny the biological differences between men and women; and sexiness is dead. And that’s just 20 minutes of our three-hour conversation. When Paglia, now 66, burst on to the American stage in 1990 with the publication of Sexual Personae, she immediately established herself as a feminist who was the scourge of the movement’s establishment, a heretic to its orthodoxy. Pick up the 700-page tome, subtitled Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, and it’s easy…