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The TWQ interview.

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The TWQ Interview series conducted by editor Charlotte Hays has been one of our more popular features. A few selections:

I Told You So!

Camille Paglia

TWQ: You have been very critical of the feminist view of rape. They seem to think it's rape if somebody looks at you crossways. Is this going to change because of the Clinton scandals?

PAGLIA: Unfortunately, this has led many other people to say, as Michael Crichton did in his recent Playboy interview, "Feminism is dead." That's a disaster! That's the ultimate damage inflicted by the hypocrisy of the feminist establishment. Feminism is not dead, but the word "feminism" has become very tarred because of these selfish women who seem to think that all women are somehow pro-choice members of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Just recently, Gloria Steinem opened her mouth again and stated that "Mrs. Dole does not speak for women." And I thought, "After all this time, Gloria Steinem! Your views do not speak for all women either! Not all women are of your particular social elite Manhattan clique!" So I think we're beginning all over again.

PAGLIA: [Hillary] is not a lesbian.... She loves eunuch geek men.

TWQ: Like who?

PAGLIA: Oh my God, look at them all! Sidney Blumenthal, Ira Magaziner, Harold Ickes--they all look alike. They are all weird Ichabod Crane men, all high IQ men who have no natural virility, okay? It's really weird. She loves to have her little cabals with them.

Spring 1999

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