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While critics like Noam Chomsky have labeled Paglia as reactionary, Paglia's position on social issues give them pause. She is strongly pro-choice, strongly pro-pornography ("I've made an extensive study," she told the audience,) and favors abolishing age-of-consent laws governing sexual relationships...
What irks Paglia so much, she said, is not so much a lack of credible scholarship, but the rejection of nature, beauty and objective truth by post-modernists and post-structuralists...
Feminist scholars, for instance, "have never opened a biology book," Paglia said...
...Paglia, the objective truth is the natural archetype...
Pagan naturalism consists of sex and violence, which Paglia said finds its most acute expression in modern television and printed tabloids...