Pagination

Camille Paglia in the 1990s:

Sexual harassment guidelines, if overdone, will end by harming women more than helping them. In the rough play of the arena, women must make their own way. If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. The answer cannot be to beg for outside help to curtail your opponentโ€™s free movement. The message conveyed by such attitudes is that women are too weak to win by menโ€™s rules and must be awarded a procedural advantage before they even climb into the ring. Teasing and taunting have always been intrinsic to the hazing rituals of male bonding. The elaborate shouting matches and satirical putdowns of African tribal life can still be heard in American pop music (โ€œYou been whupped with the ugly stick!โ€ โ€”uproarious laughter) and among drag queens, where itโ€™s called โ€œthrowing shade.โ€ Middle-class white women have got to get over their superiority complex and learn to talk trash with the rest of the human race.

A sex-free workplace is neither possible nor desirable.

She saw #MeTooโ€™s inevitable result before most of the dipshits perpetrating it like Moira Donegan were out of diapers.

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