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...Johnson observed, feminism is a diverse movement with many dissenting voices. One such dissenter, acknowledged even by Roiphe, is the controversial Camille Paglia. The argument over the date rape crisis was taking place within feminism well before the advent of Roiphe's book...
...delighted to hear that all this talk about rampant infidelity was wildly inflated," declared postfeminist writer Camille Paglia. "But if they're saying the sexual revolution never happened, that's ridiculous...
...blacks (51%)? Skip Long, a 33-year-old African American from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks his race's discomfort with oral sex may owe much to religious teaching and the legacy of slavery: according to local legend, it was something slaves were required to do for their masters. Camille Paglia is convinced that oral sex is % a culturally acquired preference that a generation of college students picked up in the '70s from seeing Linda Lovelace do it in Deep Throat, one of the first - and last - X-rated movies that men and women went to see together. "They...
Barry "the Blade" Moldanno (Anthony La Paglia), the feared mobster whose knife inspires Jerome Clifford to commit suicide before Barry can kill him is, as his Mafia-kingpin uncle says, "stupid." Reducing criminal intrigue to a new level of sleaze and triteness, Moldanno adds almost nothing to a plot which pertains to him only in the murder he committed before the film begins...
...points made by Nietzsche and Paglia are well-taken. Satire, wit and ad hominem attacks have been and always will be essential to healthy, honest and vital discourse. Just because the people who don't excel in these areas want us to have pity on them doesn't mean we must give up the treasured rhetorical devices which make campus debate not only intelligent, but also entertaining--and therefore worth reading...