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...Feminist scholar believes that words equal deeds...
That Paglia herself is a woman and a self-described (anti-feminist) feminist in no way lessens the misogyny of her attack on four female Harvard faculty. It is indeed telling that what the four faculty members whom Paglia attacks have in common is not their ideological sympathies nor their sexuality, but their gender...
...particular, Paglia accuses Professors Barbara Johnson and Marjorie Garber of "posturing" as feminists for the sole purpose of advancing their careers. The absurdity of Paglia's accusations hardly needs comment. Since when did being a feminist help any woman's tenure portfolio? Paglia paints a picture of an Academy so terrorized by feminist ideologues that the old boys faintly cower in terror, their hands--no doubt--cupped in front of their, er, more private parts. Move over, Harvey Mansfield and endowed co., here comes Lorena Bobbitt and not only is she pissed, but--much worse--she's tenured...
...only assume that when Paglia attacks scholars, feminist and otherwise, for putting self-aggrandizement and self-promotion before the concerns of students and "real" scholarship, she is her own best--which is to say, worst--case in point...
...There's not one single authentic feminist youhave right here, right now [on Harvard'sfaculty]," Paglia said. "There is no one, when itwould have cost them something, who went on theline for anything...