"She Wore That Outfit Last Week!"
They say no one can take apart a woman like a woman. Just ask one to comment on another's clothing or makeup and you will hear some incredibly precise and downright nasty comments. They notice a multitude of small details that us dudes miss. And more often than not, once they are pointed out, you say "That's true. She IS suffering from split ends".
Camille Paglia has taken this catiness to an entirely different intellectual level. I hadn't thought of her in a while, but when cleaning my abode in anticipation of a dame visit, I re-discovered her.
She's a lesbian. And a Democrat. And a pagan-atheist. And she hates feminists.
Check out this devastating critique of feminist icon Andrea Dworkin (from Vamps and Tramps):
Dworkin, wallowing in misery, is a "type" that I recognize after twenty-two years of teaching. I call her The Girl with the Eternal Cold. This was the pudgy, clumsy, whiny child at summer camp who was always spilling her milk, dropping her lollipop in the dirt, getting a cramp on the hike, a stone in her shoe, a bee in her hair.
In college, this type--patsy, bilious, and frumpy--is constantly sick from fall to spring. She coughs and sneezes on everyone, is never prepared with tissue and sits sniffling in class with a roll of toilet paper on her lap. She is the ultimate teacher's pest, the morose, unlovable child who never got her mama's approval and therefore demands attention at any price.
Dworkin seized on feminism as a mask to conceal her bitterness at this tedious, banal family drama.
I'd hate to hear what she thought of Dworkin's "do".
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