Camille Paglia - On her breakup, Heather Has Two Mommies and Obama

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15 жыл бұрын

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@shabang2 12 жыл бұрын

As an Australian, I think the Americans should show a little more appreciation and maturity in listening to her views.

@jedijones 9 жыл бұрын

This woman is an artist with words and one of the most creative, yet reasoned minds of anybody out there. The term intellectual is such a maligned and overrated term. She is one of the very few people for whom the word is earned and apropos. She never spouts cliches or says what she thinks people want to hear. She never just follows the trendy ideas of the day. She leads the way and charts her own course with every idea she has.

@affectivity9346 9 жыл бұрын

I agree. She is one of my heroines.

@matthewdavenport1123 9 жыл бұрын

jedijones In complete agreement. what a broad, deep and wide - ranging intellect. She really does, to paraphrase Kant, "dare to use her own reason".

@jimcapatelli622 6 жыл бұрын

Nah...Paglia is just a worthless, money-obsessed asshole who has discovered right-wing men as her new "market." She's pathetic.

@GyntherMeyer 4 жыл бұрын

@{} Since he obviously isn't gonna give you a reply, let me answer for him: jealousy.

@TheSapphire51 Жыл бұрын

She shows post-modern feminists for what they are --Ideologues

@jennifermorgan6913 8 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy her intellect and the way she challanges the left wing "herd" mentality (which I can fall into as easily as most of my compatriots). Camille is a gift, too often refused by those who prefer to hear only the opinions with which they agree.

@greywinters4801 7 жыл бұрын

You'll grow out of the group think mentality. Once you realize your opinion is just as valid as anyone else.

@newsreel493namics 7 жыл бұрын

Camille is a free thinking individual, and we need people like her in our society.

@chellepatino1675 5 жыл бұрын

So what you're saying is you had a fling and Allison didn't like it...

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😭 Bc the girl is Brazilian. She definitely stepped out on her before.

@Liara_I_Sorry 9 жыл бұрын

If you have any rudimentary understanding of relativity, you worship the ground Camille walks on. That is all.

@greywinters4801 7 жыл бұрын

Do you mean relativism? lol. Hey she's brilliantly verbose but just human and does embrace moral objectivism just like most people who feel the need to survive..

@glengreen7895 6 жыл бұрын

Ummm, his "Wife" is in a "Coma" ........... Lol

@Ruhma. 6 жыл бұрын

!!!

@jimcapatelli622 6 жыл бұрын

Only dogs and vermin "worship the ground" someone walks on. I'm sorry for you. Especially when that someone is the putrid, sick, vile miscreant Paglia. You're as twisted as she is if you don't find her drivel disgusting and laughable.

@paulgentile1024 3 жыл бұрын

You'll be quite disappointed

@marcelmagi4600 8 жыл бұрын

I don't agree with her re: gay parenting. I think it's universal that every child will 'come-of-age' and understand their circumstances. I don't think having two dads or two mothers (in the context of a loving home) is that traumatic on the scale of trauma in the home. It just isn't. Meanwhile, I think she seems as if she's going through a rough personal time - which doesn't diminish her ideas at all. But I think a part of her charm is that she's so open, honest and sweet. I hope everything works out for her.

@blackmore4 7 жыл бұрын

I think... gay mums for boys and gay dads for girls.

@MrWhiskeycricket 3 жыл бұрын

@richard miller Heterosexuality hasn't proved to be better - at all.

@Mitzi73 13 жыл бұрын

Camille fell in love with someone else. That is why her relationship failed. Stop trying to intellectualize it.

@MrWhiskeycricket 3 жыл бұрын

an intellectual is going to intellectualize.

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

She really wasn't

@csamuel7 9 жыл бұрын

She nails it everytime!

@jeroen89 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t believe how this woman keeps truth-bombing in every single public appearance.

@vilgessuola 14 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. That's why the world is full of such wonderful people.

@hasdrubal121 7 жыл бұрын

Love her honesty and I really hadn't thought about gay fidelity in those terms. It makes a lot of sense.

@1AC01-9-1-min 3 жыл бұрын

Everything she says makes sense. The woman is much more maternal and monogamic. The man, more often than not, is neither paternal, nor monogamic, but builds a family as one way to prove his masculinity, his maturity and his comittment to civilization.

@NormanLy101 6 жыл бұрын

Camille is awesome. I find very interesting how she describes lesbian relationships in comparison to gay men relationships.

@3506Dodge 6 жыл бұрын

Many gay man don't have that factored in. The never form strong bonds in the first place and spend most of their time alone.

@MrWhiskeycricket 3 жыл бұрын

bullshit.

@3506Dodge 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWhiskeycricket highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gay-loneliness/

@MrWhiskeycricket 3 жыл бұрын

@@3506Dodge HUFFPO? Really?

@frogsoda 11 жыл бұрын

Not only that, she is a liberal Democrat atheist. LOL I am a "right wing nutjob" that has just heard of her and even though I don't agree with her on many issues I find her to be intelligent and fascinating. Not at all like most of the vacuous liberals I run into on a regular basis.

@azluan 5 жыл бұрын

Get em' girl, can't stop laughing xD @ 5:03 - 5:11

@rhino79 14 жыл бұрын

I adore Paglia, but she's a complete hypocrite on the two mommies thing. Umm... you and your lesbian partner are raising a child... that means the kid has two mommies... Mom Camille (a female) and Mom Allison (a female). Is she saying that one of the women must always take a distant, butch, father role?

@alphonsecarter2826 10 жыл бұрын

Her point about gay male relationships vs gay female relationships. women say men cant commit or they are not good at romantic relationships. that is far from the case when you look at the 2 extremes. if gay marriage becomes common place I believe gay men will have the lowest divorce rate followed by hetero marriages then lesbian marriages will have the highest divorce rate. And her point about men and the more spiritual connection is dead on. Women will never experience that, their connections seem to be more primal and instinctual.

@greywinters4801 7 жыл бұрын

Women file for divorce at a far greater rate then men. 80% of divorce is initiated by the women. Think about it, todays women are almost never happy. Do re mi mi mi mi mi mi

@keysersoze4322 6 жыл бұрын

WHat the fuck are you all talking about. Everyones' relationships are different - how the do y'all know what "spiritual connections" people have with each other and how strong they are? How can you even judge that. Yes there are biological differences between men and women so gay relations between each will be affected by that - but as far as I'm aware you're not a neuroscientist that has studied that. What's less primal and instinctual and more spiritual about two men fucking compared to two women fucking? Please, tell me. I know there are stereotypes that lesbians rush into relationships and gay men have more casual sex and most stereotypes are founded on truth. But there's really no difference if the end point is the same - a deeply sexual and spiritual bond with a partner. What does it matter if one got there through sex with meaning and the other got there through sex without meaning? It's almost as if there's some sorta special kudos for gay men for being emotionally unavailable right up until they find "the one" and that that must mean their relationship is extra special.

@johannesschutz780 6 жыл бұрын

Keyser Söze it's called statistics

@p0ison1vy 15 жыл бұрын

i don't understand why this only has 3 stars...

@voyowee 15 жыл бұрын

I saw her at the ROM and she was excellent, especially when she started riffing on tangents and taking questions. Why this crusader for the arts isn't doing a Sister Wendy on TV is beyond me...

@SKF358 7 жыл бұрын

She makes great insights on society, but when she speaks about herself it is so broken.

@Noodleydoo 14 жыл бұрын

@loqutor Oh for God's sake--Paglia is the most original, creative thinker of my lifetime. Comparing Camille to Coulter is an absolute INSULT.

@Thraxz666 6 жыл бұрын

WHY IS THERE NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS ANYMORE?! I am very disappointed to learn she parented a kid

@Hickey66 12 жыл бұрын

I, and no one cares, fell in love with her the first moment I saw her. I tried to get my two wifes interested in books. The first had no interest; the second, we read together, she one page me the next. I miss that. To be with Camilla is a wish that will never come true. Most of my dreams have. Best wishes.

@rasmezograf 15 жыл бұрын

Camille Paglia has inspired many responses in me over the years, but this is the first time I've just felt kind of embarrassed for her. What, she's going to give up all the dignity and authority of her latter years to go carry someone else's bongos at Carneval? Doing a little Death in Venice turn, are we? Oh, for cryin' out loud, you want spark, go rub a balloon on your head. Why not just admit that we're not young forever and getting a chin job and running off to Brazil ain't gonna fix that?

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😭 She's always been a cheater...lol. You think this was her first time. Lmao.

@DyanaJean 12 жыл бұрын

ACCORDING TO ALISON, YOU WEREN'T MARRIED AND WERE PLATONIC, SO WHICH IS IT?

@rhino79 14 жыл бұрын

@AndrewKo1218 Well if she feels that the traditional family structure of mother and father is the optimal environment for a child, then does she consider her own situation sub-optimal? And why is she cynical about the motivations of other same-sex couples? Were her and her ex's motivations so perfectly selfless? I still think she's being a hypocrite. It would be like Madonna saying, "Most celebrities who adopt foreign children do so to satisfy their own egos."

@urganodevotaton 14 жыл бұрын

@AndrewKo1218 She says "I always opposed the Heather has two mommies idea" right at the beginning of the clip. If a couple wants to spare their child some teasing by not mutually taking the mother title then fine. But curtailing one's motherliness, or trying to be secondary or only fatherly (or whatever she actually means) when they're both inclined to be like the mother is a disservice: a parent not being herself & not giving what she is most disposed to give.

@SisterUnity 12 жыл бұрын

damn she's got it all thought out, doesn't she. Frankly I'd rather less figuring, and more just getting along.

@NelsonClick 13 жыл бұрын

Don't feel you have to attach an idea or concept to a person. Ideas, proposals, propositions, concepts can be discussed on their own merit and don't have to be justified by being labeled with the person saying it. If you can understand that then you can understand the things Camille talks about. She truly is the most tolerant and nurturing intellectual in America and would kick my ass for saying that. Americas lesbian big sister.

@itreeye 11 жыл бұрын

Actually you're the one who is reacting to what you've been told to think about human nature, and her honest evaluation, from her experience as a gay person, or her perception, is what is grating you. It comes from out the box you've been taught to live in, and so you attack the person because you cannot stand their message.

@Wanamaker1946 6 жыл бұрын

#gaysfortrump15 years is long enough to be with anyone. 15 years is 80 years in straight time, Chrrrrist! I can't imagine being with the same man any longer than 3 years. Lovers for 3 years/Friends for life is my maxim. Camille Paglia is brilliant and magnanimous.........so rare a virtue in gay men and straight or gay women.

@glinkglow 15 жыл бұрын

It's called a personality.

@Patrick3183 14 жыл бұрын

She left her partner of 15 years cuz she is obsessed with daniela mercury?? Does she even know daniela? Are they lovers??? I am confused

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

😭😭🤦

@dirkbogarde44 11 жыл бұрын

It's the voice. And the fact she never, ever SHUTS UP.

@MaleOrderBride 5 жыл бұрын

Yasss!! I am a gay man who loves Paglia...so it's nice to see her talking about her queerness for a brief interview!! I'd love to have drinks with her!

@judasthered 14 жыл бұрын

The reason anyone would call her predictable is perchance because there's no such thing as new or modern human issues. History merely repreats and echos across time which I believe is the overall point she makes in her writing...

@1Skeptik1 6 жыл бұрын

Prompts questions as to "relationships". Camille suggests women "bond" more deeply than do men yet I notice they initiate the vast majority of divorce proceedings? Psych 101 - Women marry for resources in the hetro world, is anything different in lesbian union?

@Katharsis540 4 жыл бұрын

Please tell me his name is Heath. As in Heath Ledger.

@svenmayer 15 жыл бұрын

she is being REAL

@NatSci 15 жыл бұрын

I think the last word in your post is meant to be "dispensable"..LOL Otherwise, you are absolutely correct.

@falcon5467 8 жыл бұрын

Daniela Mercury, wow! She's hot! Maybe I'm a lesbian, too.

@earthmuscle 14 жыл бұрын

If she loves gay men so much, why doesn't she have one fix her hair....

@siuwahchan 9 жыл бұрын

"intelligent" look at her and I finally what intelligent means!

@SisterUnity 12 жыл бұрын

gads, she's like the Lesbian post modern Woody Allen!

@jessemckay 12 жыл бұрын

It's confusing when a lesbian confesses that she envies gay men. The convoluted explanation didn't quite get there as I see it.

@indabushwoman 13 жыл бұрын

I don't know how she was ever seen as the voice of modern feminism, as a lesbian she could not possibly understand the intricacies of male/female relationships. Her view is very one-sided; she also theorized in one of her books that human civilization is at it's best when homosexual males are dominant in society in politics and society.

@admiller67 8 жыл бұрын

Although I don't question her intelligence, I've never understood why anyone found Paglia all that impressive.

@measl 8 жыл бұрын

+Roy Batty It's not that she's not impressive, it's just that she's confusing. Over the last 3 years, Paglia has been all over the board in her "academic beliefs". Even when using SP as her reference.

@fuzzyone99 8 жыл бұрын

+Roy Batty Because her particular approach and contributions are essential if academia is to retain any relevance.

@indabushwoman 13 жыл бұрын

@bs17 Actually now that I think about it, they don't have it easier; just different issues like you say(esp. the lesbians). And I don't believe that lesbians shouldn't have leadership roles in the feminist movement, just not Camille Paglia...

@Dan74NYC 14 жыл бұрын

Just because a camera follows somebody doesn't mean there is some secret intelligence behind all the hoopla. She didn't even finish being Governor. She's a sham.

@Dan74NYC 14 жыл бұрын

Oh Final Justice... She use to be MY IDOL!!!!! I see this aspect of her as a bit sad... it's that infantilism that she most often speaks of that she is now victim to... will she be chasing Britney Spears next? But I'm sorry, she hails Sarah Palin who has no concept of Art or intellect. She's proving to be more of a victim to a dominatrix than a beer gut is to the Super Bowl.

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😭

@harrissimo 10 жыл бұрын

She is wrong. I know kids of gay parents and they are just fine.

@FlaccidWeiner271 9 жыл бұрын

Did you listen to what she actually said? She IS a gay parent.

@harrissimo 9 жыл бұрын

Of course I listened. She makes broad generalizations. She rubs the cat fur the wrong way to get a reaction.

@FlaccidWeiner271 9 жыл бұрын

...and yet you've provided no evidence you actually understood what she said. Seems she was making too fine a point and you just heard what you wanted to.

@harrissimo 9 жыл бұрын

Bryndís Víkingsson yeah, you're probably right...whatever...have a great day! peace!

@harrissimo 7 жыл бұрын

Being gay is the same as radiation poison. That's really messed up. Listen we are never going to agree on this issue so it makes no sense to even discuss it. Just ignore me. You'll be a lot happier and so will I.

@kd1s 15 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry Ms. Paglia, but the President can in fact multi-task. I want my rights granted now, not a year from now, not six years from now, but now. This is the prime reason I've never given a dime to the likes of HRC, NGLTF, etc. Until they represent my view they can go pound sand.

@magicsinglez 13 жыл бұрын

"Paglia. . . has publicly defended pornography, homosexuality, prostitution, transvestism, and sadomasochism". As a cover for her ultra-right agenda. . . which I happen to agree with, tho, Paglia seems to really be about propping up male egos. . keep the natives in check. As 'right' as she is her 'platform' seems to be about not going back but instead into the realm of men's' rights. Folks are so brainwashed the other way she can't just say what she really want/means. Neither can men. . .

@PS4sos21 7 жыл бұрын

She is a smart leftist..

@elisky 15 жыл бұрын

loves it

@Dan74NYC 14 жыл бұрын

What I don't get either is her marveling interest in Sarah Palin... good lord, for a woman who has quite the lexicon and verbose, how could she put a box of rocks on such a pedestal? Palin has no love of art, the english language, proper diction, world knowledge or interest... Anita Hill has more scoring points! I think Camille is having a midlife crisis.

@narlywaves2371 Жыл бұрын

It's sad you think just bc someone is lacking in language arts skills, they can't be otherwise interesting.

@DannyBoydPhoto Жыл бұрын

@@narlywaves2371 oh Sarah is interesting, just not deserving to run a country much less a lemonade stand.

@Pupuki182 15 жыл бұрын

She is Actually crazy since every men and women are different there's gay women that are just for sex as there's men Bonding. Theres different individuals in the world and she is like using old stereotypes of gay men. She makes her opiniona based on stereotypes instead of the reality. But well I let her keep her non sense as she wants to get attention.

@mrthundercrack 15 жыл бұрын

This gay self loving person gets a kick out of Paglia.

@itreeye 11 жыл бұрын

...too heady for ya, eh?

@DHU11 Жыл бұрын

Yes, gay women are too emotional. Being a non-monogamous bisexual woman with a preference to be in committed relationships with women is hard… 99.9% of gay women seem to repulsed by the idea of non-monogamy - especially with someone who wants to sleep with men also. Sigh

@urbansetter1 Жыл бұрын

I'm a gay woman I agree with her. That's not true about gat men and I'm gay woman have been in long relationships with a fine spark. Gay men have very bad sex addiction from childhood trauma. I like her but she doesn't understand addiction and teauma. Aids let us know that the sex addiction s a problem. She's not spiritual she doesn't understand consciousness most do not. Spiritually bankrupt world.

@DHU11 Жыл бұрын

She’s spoken multiple times about AIDS being a ‘punishment’ for gay males unbridled sexual escapades

@thescottsman4965 5 жыл бұрын

camille...omg...just stop...shut up for a second...yer brilliant no doubt....but stop...already

@pretorious700 8 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine having to listen to her all day and night? Murder comes to mind.

@soapbxprod 8 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up , you idiot pretentious "Buddhist". a Buddhist who contemplates murder! AHAHAHAHA! Can you imagine having to listen to YOU all day and night chanting NAMEMYOHORINGINGKIYO?

@greywinters4801 7 жыл бұрын

Are you familiar with the female gender ?

@newsreel493namics 7 жыл бұрын

I am somewhat familiar with equal rights and equal responsibilities, in that freedom is responsibility, and responsibility creates freedom, love, compassion and faith, all of which are silent and invisible: AND SO ARE MEMORIES AND DREAMS.

@newsreel493namics 7 жыл бұрын

Camille is a free thinking individual, and we need people like her in our society.

@badleroybrown8 14 жыл бұрын

I used to really like her writing but she has become so very boring, predictable and bitter. She has not been able to evolve from her the early 90s thinking; her ideas have become rigid. Camille: please get away from dull political analysis and back to talking about Art and nature - but with an open mind! Alison should grab that boy and run.

@Hickey66 13 жыл бұрын

So bright, so intelligent and so indepented, yet when love comes - you just fall apart. Camille is in love at this point and falling apart. Without her - life would be less. How could anyone live with fast talking woman. Me? Ah, come off it John, she will talk and drink you under the table. That's me talking to myself. Also this:- Camille and Milla Jovovich and Ellan Page on a thrill ride. Guess that dream will never come true. Most have.

@CorduroyRoadME 15 жыл бұрын

Camille Paglia was sometimes so wrong and sometimes so right. Who could have imagined she would end up being just kooky?

@SPR00KS 13 жыл бұрын

@tntftbrain aww so gay,do you have little ones:)

@roguegender1 10 жыл бұрын

if shes on my side, god help us all.

@SandyWells 12 жыл бұрын

Who IS this elderly chick?? She's got the worst voice on planet earth and she has some weird thinking. Like some staid, old, moth ball smelling lady wearing a floral pattern.

@Dan74NYC 14 жыл бұрын

LOL...

@jessemckay 12 жыл бұрын

As Camille Paglia ages, she sounds more and more like Roseanne Barr.

@Gagazoot 11 жыл бұрын

Good Lord, take a breath woman!

@Muonium1 15 жыл бұрын

mhmmm, real wacko.

@DavidKirwanirl 8 жыл бұрын

Its no different for gay men heh.

@kkallebb 8 жыл бұрын

I know lots of gay male couples who correspond to her description: they have been together for decades and have sex, and even flings, on the side.

@jimmmmy41 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but there are plenty where that's a deal breaker. It depends on the people in the relationship, gay or straight, or whatever. Paglia tends to deal in caricatures when it suits her.

@kkallebb 8 жыл бұрын

The fact remains that gay men are far more likely than gay women to have open relationships.

@pretorious700 13 жыл бұрын

yawn