Believe It or Not, Camille Paglia Has an Opinion About Sarah Palin
And she will express that opinion with a semi-automatic metaphor gun…
Rip tide! Is the Obama campaign shooting out to sea like a paper boat?
It's heavy weather for Obama fans, as momentum has suddenly shifted to John McCain — that hoary, barnacle-encrusted tub that many Democrats like me had thought was full of holes and swirling to its doom in the inky depths of Republican incoherence and fratricide. Gee whilikers, the McCain vampire just won't die! Hit him with a hammer, and he explodes like a jellyfish into a hundred hungry pieces.
Well shiver me timbers, Cap'n Camille, John McCain does sort of resemble a barnacle-encrusted jellyfish! But let's cut the bilge, shall we? What about Sarah Palin, that lusty siren of the GOP's newly-high seas?
Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut [at the RNC], she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.
So if I read this correctly, Camille Paglia is saying that
* Sarah Palin is a weightlifting enthusiast
* Sarah Palin is a gender-questioning individual, which is remarkable considering her party's position on such things
* Sarah Palin is your mom from the future
* Sarah Palin is a dominatrix
* Sarah Palin will ram oversimplified crap down people's throats, just like Madonna's current record label
I'm sorry, I think my brain just sprang a leak.
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Camille is obviously tired of the NY lesbians.
I want to interview Sarah Palin. I am a virtual unknown who does brunette barbie even better than her! She will think I'm her best girlfriend until I get to the last couple of questions. I've got about 20 questions ready to go! Work with me people.
You're absoutely right, Kay. I got the crowd all kinds of worked up when I was a cheerleader.
Oh, that's right. I can't vote for her unless I vote for the crypt keeper first.
You know what? Something just occurred to me. Since we elected Jorje because guys wanted to have a beer with him, maybe I should vote for Sarah Palin because she's someone I could get a mani/pedi with.
Am I the only white woman who is offended by this pick? Honestly. How stupid does McCain think women are? Patronizing, cheauvenist pig! (with lipstick)
Everyone has watched cheerleaders being trained and working up the crowd for the guys. What is different about this? Why is anyone paying attention after, or even during the game?
Women who see themselves in Sarah Palin (whom they've "known" for 5 minutes) seem to have a hatred of male power, which is ironic since she represents female submission to authority, control and old-fashioned standards. Women without a chip on their shoulder resent her trying to claim modern feminism, for they are post-sexist and not so dazzled by the prospect of seeing a powerful woman annoying men that they can't see she works obediently for the women-disempowering Party of John McCain. Men who like her seem to be either "anything to get the Republicans in" or gleefully masochistic, which is just plain sad.
Holy metaphors is right! More like a fully-auto blaster. She even analogized over to Star Wars and linked the scene! Obviously Paglia lifted the Star Wars metaphor from here yesterday. Ugh. So Biden. And it is there I must disagree; she has mixed her metaphors with too much acid from her stylin' daze in the sixties. Palin could not be anything like Darth Maul. Maul maybe uttered one sentence throughout the film, although, that might be the best light saber battle of all the movies. Palin reminds me more of the little weasel character at Jabba's feet chuckling as Luke was thrown into the pit and laughing at everyone's misfortunes. Here's a different sort of ending where Jabba does not meet his demise and Palin chuckles all the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5lT-pTejo