I've always had time for Camille Paglia despite disagreeing with her on a number of issues and Bari Weiss' interview with her in the Wall Street Journal confirms my opinion. She may be nuts and occasionally contradictory but in the main her views on men, women and feminism are spot on.
Basically she doesn't say anything that a normal person doesn't know instinctively to be true. Men and women are different. Education is being feminised. Women who dress publicly in a sexually provocative way are not taking care of their own safety. Feminism has impugned the legitimate choice that many women would prefer, i.e. to stay at home with their own kids. Abortion shouldn't be the central issue for feminists.
Camille argues that feminism should go back to basics. Offering equal opportunity to women and the freedom to take those opportunities or not. The fights we should be having are about rapes on Indian buses; honour killings and female genital mutilation.
All absolutely true however these are hard fights to have for they fly in the face of the current view that all cultures are equal. It is difficult to come out and say honour killings are evil, dishonourable and wrong and any culture that condones such a thing is backward and evil. Guess that's why the feminist establishment have been so deafeningly silent on these issues. Much easier to cry "Mysogynist!" when a man wears a blue tie or looks at his watch or has a family or something.
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