WFB: Best-selling author and feminist Camille Paglia said she was “horrified” by protesters’ use of “pussy hats,” and denounced the hats as “a major embarrassment to contemporary feminism.”
Paglia slammed the feminist accessory during a wide-ranging New York Magazine interview published Monday, in which she also approved of the Women’s March where protesters sported “pussy hats” in January.
“I want dignity and authority for women,” Paglia said in an apparent contrast to protesters’ use of the hats.
“I was horrified, horrified by the pink pussy hats,” Paglia said. But she did support the Women’s March as a form of solidarity with other women.
“It really wasn’t about feminism. It’s really not about Trump. It’s not about any of that. It was all of a sudden, Oh, wow, to be with all the women,” Paglia said.
“Pussy hats” are oddly-shaped, pink, knitted headgear and activist symbol started by The Pussyhat Project. The Pussyhat Project, according to The Huffington Post, started with two women who sought a “ways to channel their grief,” over Trump’s election, a tactic that Paglia was likely to criticize based on her previous statements.
Paglia has derided “grievance-oriented feminism” and said Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz exemplified the worst of that. Sulkowicz carried her mattress to her Columbia University graduation in 2015 after another student allegedly raped her. The mattress served as a protest symbol against the University’s handling of the incident.
Paglia also suggested that actress Lena Dunham dragged personal and psychological issues into her activism. more
Yeah – Camille, this isn’t about women’s “rights” anymore. It’s more about stupid women being used as a political tool to enslave themselves and the rest of us.
I know this sounds weird, but I have read some things about Paglia that I have to agree with. She applies some logical thinking, doesn’t just spout off emotional diatribes. She has said some things about these whiny battle-axe women where I find myself saying “right on, Camille!”.
I call the women’s march an embarrassment.
I was listening to Rush today. He notes that feminism is about the right to abortion and nothing els All that stuff about equal pay and equal this or that is just BS. They know abortion is murder but and they feel guilty about it so they go on and on about all that other stuff to compensate and distract.
@JPM – not only that – they want someone else to pay for it.
Nobammy is a natural in that hat.
I’m waiting for the male march on D.C., complete with appropriate hats! I bet wives/girlfriends/mothers, everywhere are busy crocheting and knitting hats for their male/gender fluid friends/spouses/etc, as I type!!
You just knew it would go from black history February to women’s March. Looks like we’re headed into trans April
Freud called it Penis Envy, now we call it Feminism.