First off, I wasn't talking about Palin, but rather Paglia's interpretation of Palin. I've repeatedly said that I don't think that Palin is dumb or naive. I don't think she is an uneducated hick. I find many of her views to be odious and her political persona to be nauseating. I could understand why it would appeal to others and don't think I underestimate it.
As for the Shakespeare, Paglia said: "Finally, as a lover of poetry (my last book was about that), I savor every kind of experimentation with standard English beginning with Shakespeare, who was the greatest improviser of them all at a time when there were no grammar rules. Many others listening to Sarah Palin at her debate went into conniptions about what they assailed as her incoherence or incompetence. But I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies)." So yes, she was directly relating Palin's speaking to Shakespeare. I think her analysis of Palin's oratory is ridiculous. As for her analysis of Palin's place within Feminism, we can certainly disagree. Paglia has a lot of history in the feminist movement, a great deal of it seemingly spent railing against other feminists rather than shaping a positive vision of her own. That being said, she also has contributed to the cannon of sex positive feminism, so I certainly would not dismiss her out of hand. She's no Betty Dodson, Susie Bright or Carol Queen, but I respect her years of thinking and writing so we'll just have to disagree regarding Ms Palin. Judah On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > She didn't say Palin was a modern day Shakespeare. She said Palin represents > a branch of feminism that has been ignored by the repressive orthodoxy of > paleo-feminists like Gloria Steinem. Read the letters that follow on the > next page and you will see why. Conservative, small-town, religious women > connect with her. They see themselves in her in a way they could never see > themselves in ideologically narrow-minded women like Steinem. I especially > love how Paglia blasted Katie Couric, calling her out for the harpie that > she is. What I like about Paglia is that she is intellectually honest. > > Underestimate Palin at your own peril. Women like Paglia may be voting for > Sarah Palin for President one day. > > Brooks has clearly bought into the liberal line that Palin is a frontier > rube with no brains and no skills. Sure, he's a conservative, but he's also > part of the Northeast elite professional class that Paglia loves to ridicule > for its insularity and self-aggrandizment. > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Judah wrote: > >> Palin is a modern day Shakespeare and Madonna was the international >> birth of sex positive feminism. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273136 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
