“An Absolute Poison”

Cultural commentator Camille Paglia said in a recently published video that second-wave feminism – in its attempt to destroy men – is also destroying women and our culture.
The feminist icon – who prefers the original brand of feminism that won women the right to vote and raised up heroines such as Katharine Hepburn, Amelia Earhart and Anne Morrow Lindbergh – said the more recent second wave of feminism is “an absolute poison that has spread worldwide”. “[The original feminists] admired what men had done – there was no male-bashing as [has become] systemic to second-wave feminism.”
The brand of feminism recreated by Betty Friedan in the 1960s, Paglia said, is now based on “denigrating men” and “defining men as oppressors and tyrants through history” [...] “[This] is an absolute lie, an extrapolation of neuroticism on the part of these fanatics.”
Paglia added the “snowflake generation” is also a result of social media “where people feel they have so many ‘friends’ and want a sense that reality is comforting and cushioning them [...]”. By attempting to suppress the evidence of differences between the sexes, second-wave feminism “is actually exposing young women to danger”.

The nation’s educational system has failed young people because it has “tried to make everyone feel good” and uses the word “diversity” as a “banner” for trying to make up for something from the past – the hard truth of which is not even being taught any longer for fear of “triggering” [criticism from] groups of people.
Comparing second-wave feminism to the “Spanish Inquisition”, Paglia explained that “any form of dissent – even within feminism – is treated as heresy [...], and they actually try to destroy you. While second-wave feminists have led a drive to destroy traditional religion and culture, the result has been the ‘new religion’ of political correctness”.

Camille Paglia is a professor at the University Of The Arts in Philadelphia.