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...sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...
...while we're on that subject, let's discuss this new respectability you seem to be getting. Camille Paglia worships you (maybe she should have been in your book). And you're on the cover of Newsweek. Of course, you're in almost every issue of the magazine, even if only in that USA Today-like section with the 50-word articles and the color pictures. But "Justify My Love" got a full page, and now the cover story? Well, well, you're moving up in the world...
...only you deserved it. I used to believe, as Paglia apparently still does, that there was something behind that facade, some shred of intellectual content to your image(s) to justify this attention. Or something. Whatever the case, I was wrong...
...Camille Paglia rightly pointed out that you, as an "artist," have no responsibility to uphold society's values, but I really doubt you were thinking on that plane. The academic obsession with you in general seems to be doing your thinking for you. In fact, when you first started staking out the cultural fringe, you dismissed any idea of a higher social agenda. We were told that "Papa Don't Preach" was "Just a song." And "Open Your Heart" was "just a video." Now we are supposed to believe that you have transformed yourself into an icon of social tolerance...
...CAMILLE PAGLIA...