>>I am interested to know whether either of these scholars (or anyone else
>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
>>I am interested to know whether either of these scholars (or anyone else
>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
>>I am interested to know whether either of these scholars (or anyone else
>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
Why would anyone want to bother responding? (Well, yes, it has received
press, and maybe the Clinton campaign shows that it's better respond to
stupid attacks than to take the more tasteful rout of ignoring something
that should be beneath notice.) How, and why would anyone respond to her
"critical" statements such as "only women have vaginas" from that essay,
hum-drum remarks that she imagines to be witherning?
That essay forms a part of a "friendly" assault on gay men -- she has
stated in print that we have to get over the idea that the AIDS "deaths are
so special" (Winkler, one of the principle academics she attacks in that
essay, died of AIDS), that rather than being the twittering fags that amuse
her, we are, according to her, becoming obsessed with blaming other people
for AIDS (what, rather than blaming ourselves??). (Remember in her first
book she claims to understand the cause of male homosexuality -- it is the
"flight from the mother," but, she also points out, "the mother (nature)
has her revenge in disease," hence AIDS (quotes here are from memory).
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Harrison Brace
Grad Student
Stanford, Department of Comparative Literature
hbrace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
snmail:
Department of Comparative Literature
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-2031
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's
equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind
which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille
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>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
>>I am interested to know whether either of these scholars (or anyone else
>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
>>I am interested to know whether either of these scholars (or anyone else
>for that matter) has responded to Paglia's criticisms - either on their own
>or on Foucault's behalf.
Why would anyone want to bother responding? (Well, yes, it has received
press, and maybe the Clinton campaign shows that it's better respond to
stupid attacks than to take the more tasteful rout of ignoring something
that should be beneath notice.) How, and why would anyone respond to her
"critical" statements such as "only women have vaginas" from that essay,
hum-drum remarks that she imagines to be witherning?
That essay forms a part of a "friendly" assault on gay men -- she has
stated in print that we have to get over the idea that the AIDS "deaths are
so special" (Winkler, one of the principle academics she attacks in that
essay, died of AIDS), that rather than being the twittering fags that amuse
her, we are, according to her, becoming obsessed with blaming other people
for AIDS (what, rather than blaming ourselves??). (Remember in her first
book she claims to understand the cause of male homosexuality -- it is the
"flight from the mother," but, she also points out, "the mother (nature)
has her revenge in disease," hence AIDS (quotes here are from memory).
*****************************************************************************
Harrison Brace
Grad Student
Stanford, Department of Comparative Literature
hbrace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
snmail:
Department of Comparative Literature
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-2031
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's
equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind
which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille
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