Camille Paglia, the always reliably politically incorrect enemy of the modern feminist, excoriated the New York Times "exposé" on Donald Trump's past relations with women, laughing it off as a "demonstration of the insularity and mediocrity of today’s Manhattan prestige media."
Paglia, who offended feminists everywhere with her article "It's a Man's World and Always Will Be," punched another hole in their already deflated hot-air balloon with her latest for Salon by simultaneously satirizing modern PC standards of non-gender differentiation and celebrating Trump's projected alpha-male style.
Though Paglia doesn't personally want Trump for President, even vowing her support for Bernie Sanders in the article, she recognizes the stupidity and hypocrisy of the New York Times for thinking they can target Trump's past affairs while completely giving Hillary's husband Bill a pass, even though allegations against the latter were far worse:
Can there be any finer demonstration of the insularity and mediocrity of today’s Manhattan prestige media? Wow, millionaire workaholic Donald Trump chased young, beautiful, willing women and liked to boast about it. Jail him now! Meanwhile, the New York Times remains mute about Bill Clinton’s long record of crude groping and grosser assaults—not one example of which could be found to taint Trump.
Paglia blames this "fiasco" of a hit-piece that wasn't on "rote political correctness that has saturated elite American campuses for nearly 40 years." She particularly scrutinizes the Times for thinking Trump's flirtatious meeting with model Rowanne Brewer at a Mar-a-Lago pool in 1990 had anything incriminating on Trump beyond the fact that a millionaire had the hots for a 27-year-old model in a bikini, and to illustrate how clueless the Times reporters were in their task to bring down The Donald, she points out how the article included a photo of Trump and Brewer at a banquet hall as a way to show Trump as some kind of sexual predator, failing to decipher its seemingly erotic undertones that say anything BUT:
Small and blurry in the print edition, the Brewer-Trump photo in online digital format positively pops with you-are-there luminosity. Her midnight-blue evening dress opulently cradling her bare shoulders, Rowanne is all flowing, glossy hair, ample, cascading bosom, and radiant, lushly crimson Rita Hayworth smile. The hovering Trump, bedecked with the phallic tongue of a violet Celtic floral tie, is in Viking mode, looking like a triumphant dragon on the thrusting prow of a long boat. “To the victor belong the spoils!” I said to myself in admiration, as seductive images from Babylon to Paris flashed through my mind. Yes, here is all the sizzling glory of hormonal sex differentiation, which the grim commissars of campus gender studies will never wipe out!
Camille Paglia, 1; the NY Times and the grim commissars of campus gender studies, 0.
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