Camille Paglia

While browsing Andrew Sullivan's blog, I happened upon an interview with Camille Paglia. She's a feminist intellectual who broke from the doctrinaire feminism that arose in the 70's. Some money quotes:

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.