Levin |
09-10-2008 06:24 AM |
Reading this prompted me to watch several youtube videos of her from the early '90s. What a motormouth. It was interesting, I could take snippets from several of the recorded interviews and reconstruct her points in this column: she's been saying the same thing for years, on Madonna, on Annie Oakley, on abortion, and on the death penalty. Only difference is she's praising Palin instead of Annie Oakley. She's long preferred the hardscrabble, blistered frontierwomen over the stretch-faced Gloria Steinems. And it's hard to resist her wonderful line of realism, even if she's been saying it for years: why save the guilty but murder the innocent? Has there ever been a more succinct reality check for those who decry the death penalty, but put Planned Parenthood in their will?
I highly support Paglia's #1 goal: to destroy the ruthlessly enforced dogmatism of higher education. She's the Clarence Thomas of feminists: refusing to accept the orthodoxy of her perceived social group.
I'm guessing Waters adores her.
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