Camille Paglia is back, wank follows.
Props to the Wank Report mousies.

Over at Salon.com, infamous "feminist" Camille Paglia* makes her return after a six year hiatus. The second paragraph of her return column serves as a welcome mat to her fans or a warning sign to the haters, depending on your POV.

I had certainly assumed the Web was surfeited with more than enough material, but evidently many others beside myself find the partisan polarization of the blogosphere numbingly predictable and its prose too often slapdash, fragmentary or drearily prolix.

Um... What?

The Salon readers are, for the most part, going 1/3s "Yay, she's back" and 2/3s "OH HELL NO!"

For. Five. Hundred. Plus. Entries.

There are some choice potshots to be had, at Paglia herself, her haters, and a couple at Molly Irvins (whom one of the first posters referenced re: her appraisal of Paglia).

Internet commentary is serious bizness!

* Reader Rupert sums up Paglia's style thusly:

One third worthwhile insight, incisively articulated.

One third provocation for the hell of it (also worthwhile).

One third damn fool nonsense, delivered in the written-word equivalent of bombastic prog rock.

Stir up with equal parts narcissism and generosity.

Personally, I tend to think of her as the batshit liberal ying to Ann Coulter's batshit conservative yang.

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	Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote (Anonymous) 2007-02-18 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	My first exposure to Camille Paglia was an explicit (to my young eyes) article she wrote in the TV Guide Star Trek anniversary magazine about her obsession with Data. I still think "Shit, that crazy Data-stalker sure made a name for herself." Anona M. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote (Anonymous) 2007-02-18 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! I have that magazine! I vaguely remember that... it was creepy. I can't believe she wrote it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote airborne_rodent 2007-02-18 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Poor Data. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote ayezur 2007-02-19 12:31 am UTC (link)
	...link? is a huge Data fan and abnormally fascinated with the depths of insanity he seems to drive a certain kind of middle-aged fangirl to (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote khym_chanur 2007-02-19 01:15 am UTC (link)
	Huh, I remember it as being along the lines of "People like Data so much because he's high-tech, and we Americans do love our high-tech so, LOL XD". Made me want to cave in her head with a clue-by-four. Did she write about Data for TV Guide more than once? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote chibikaijuu 2007-02-19 05:26 am UTC (link)
	I liked Data 'cause he had a kitty-cat. Granted, I was four years old at the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote khym_chanur 2007-02-19 05:29 am UTC (link)
	Granted, I was four years old at the time. Holy shit, I feel old. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote chibikaijuu 2007-02-19 05:39 am UTC (link)
	Sorry. : p TNG was father-daughter bonding time when I was a wee thing, but I missed the first run of the first few seasons because it started the year after I was born. ...I also watched Reading Rainbow at the same time. Preschool me was extremely confused. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote drhenryjekyll 2007-02-21 01:47 am UTC (link)
	My father-daughter bonding was with movies like "The Thing" and "Alien". I was fucked-up as a youngin, yo. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote stopthatgirl7 2007-02-19 10:52 am UTC (link)
	Same here, man. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote rimrunner 2007-02-19 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Mine was an advertising poster for Sexual Personae in my tenth-grade English teacher's class. Why, yes, we DID read Virginia Woolf that year. (Actually, I enjoyed reading Woolf, but that teacher had a peculiar fascination with castration imagery. I think the main reason I didn't major in English was that I didn't want to end up like that.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote stopthatgirl7 2007-02-19 10:53 am UTC (link)
	...No, no, why do the batshit ones always go after the good characters? Why can't she like Troi? Or Wesley? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote ayezur 2007-02-19 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	Data attracts a very weird kind of fan. Generally female and middle-aged, and prone to projecting their standards of "perfect man" on him. I found a fanfic archive that belonged to a bunch of them once and it got my TWS something awful. It was really absorbing in a horrifying "guess that emotional disorder!" kind of way. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote iwanttobeasleep 2007-02-19 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Pardon, but what is TWS? Urbandictionary.com gets no results. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Oh noes, a mousie with a personal anecdote ayezur 2007-02-19 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Trainwreck Syndrome. Known as morbid curiosity in some circles. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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