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paglia

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for paglia.

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Stienham through Paglia to Hanna Roisin (who recently declared men not equal but obsolete), feminism means a lot of things.

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Quick take

A river in Tuscany

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paglia gathered in one view.

noun

A river in Tuscany

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paglia.

noun

A river in Tuscany

Example sentences

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Stienham through Paglia to Hanna Roisin (who recently declared men not equal but obsolete), feminism means a lot of things.

2

Searching for Camille Paglia and transgender you will find more information about it..

3

This [0] may not be to your taste (or say anything helpful), Peterson always being a wildcard, but this conversation with Camille Paglia sticks with me.

4

I tend to be skeptical of columnists who make claims like that because of Camille Paglia ruining it for everybody with her concern-trolling.

5

(and throw Harry Potter out) Sexual Personae by Paglia deserves to be named in the Gender/sexuality section.

6

Why am I not surprised that Paglia loves this stuff?

7

If Paglia is just saying that we should have a co-equal producer/consumer relationship, in what sense does the man serve as 'a model to be embraced or rejected'?

8

If you want intelligent commentary on media and gender Camille Paglia should be your first stop; she's also a markedly better writer than whiskey, who writes as his nom de plume suggests he might.

9

I think Paglia is suggesting a co-equal but different Producer / Consumer relationship is better but what we are getting is perhaps closer to Master / Slaves, a relationship that distorts each individual thread.

10

There's a great talk out there by Camille Anna Paglia (possibly in conversation with Jordan Peterson) where scathingly she talks about the takeover of universities in the late 60s by small-minded bourgeois careerists, authoritarian aparachik clutching little red books.

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I'm sure that there are women out there who are better programmers than I am (probably thousands of them!), but - as Camille Paglia argues - the bellcurve of female drive and talent is narrower than the bellcurve of male drive and talent.

Quote examples

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From Jezebel: "Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing.

2

This sort of trolling is no different than their Camille Paglia: "Sarah Palin, Best Feminist?" or "Ask a Wingnut!" vein of trolling.

3

Two quotes from Camille Paglia: “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack-the-Ripper.” You have to tolerate deviance if you want to accommodate world-class talent.

4

Camille Paglia interviewed in the Wall Street Journal characterised "command and control systems in education" as the mechanism by which "a civilisation commits suicide".

Proper noun examples

1

For God's sake, go read some Camille Paglia!

2

As an example (and I would recommend Camille Paglia's works), it's fascinating to me how, despite our ever growing technical ability to produce great film, the actual emotional content of the film is ever worse.

3

There was some blowback against this (Paglia, Falck, Windschuttle), but the sillier parts of Deconstructionist / Post-structuralist nonsense basically won, and the institutional forces within academia mean that that victory has been depressingly permanent.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use paglia in a sentence?

Stienham through Paglia to Hanna Roisin (who recently declared men not equal but obsolete), feminism means a lot of things.

What does paglia mean?

A river in Tuscany

What part of speech is paglia?

paglia is commonly used as noun.