Camille Paglia Rape Essay: My Summary and Response
I read “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than feminists Know” written by Camille Paglia. This journal entry was published in New York Newsday, in 1991. The author Camille Paglia was born in 1947. Paglia achieved her doctorate from Yale University. Paglia went on to become a Professor of humanities at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. It was an insight into the way Paglia felt and though about Rape and how certain groups may have influenced it. Camille Paglia thesis is “Feminism keeps saying the sexes are the same. It keeps telling women they can do anything, go anywhere, say anything, wear anything. No, they can’t. Women will always be in sexual danger.”(578-582) What she is saying is Feminists are telling everyone that men and women are made the same, basically we are on an even playing field when it comes to biology. Paglia …show more content…
She suggested that they hear the word violent and picture some scary man they don’t know. Women are not thinking about the friend next door that comes from a nice home, or the well dress gentleman standing next to her in line.(579) She goes on to explain about a man that takes a trip to Egypt to see the Great Pyramid. How he sleeps out in the open overnight. And how she will never be stupid enough to do something like that, due to the fear of rape.(579) Paglia also believes that biology plays a major role in this topic as well. She says that men are biologically driven to and for sex. (579) She expresses in her essay “Hunt, pursuit and capture are biologically programmed into male sexuality”( Paglia 578-582). Feminists thinks that society is what saves women from men; and training, and educating men to be more refined is the action that is needed. Paglia says, “Women who do not understand rape can not defend themselves against it”(Paglia
I read “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than feminists Know” written by Camille Paglia. This journal entry was published in New York Newsday, in 1991. The author Camille Paglia was born in 1947. Paglia achieved her doctorate from Yale University. Paglia went on to become a Professor of humanities at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. It was an insight into the way Paglia felt and though about Rape and how certain groups may have influenced it. Camille Paglia thesis is “Feminism keeps saying the sexes are the same. It keeps telling women they can do anything, go anywhere, say anything, wear anything. No, they can’t. Women will always be in sexual danger.”(578-582) What she is saying is Feminists are telling everyone that men and women are made the same, basically we are on an even playing field when it comes to biology. Paglia …show more content…
She suggested that they hear the word violent and picture some scary man they don’t know. Women are not thinking about the friend next door that comes from a nice home, or the well dress gentleman standing next to her in line.(579) She goes on to explain about a man that takes a trip to Egypt to see the Great Pyramid. How he sleeps out in the open overnight. And how she will never be stupid enough to do something like that, due to the fear of rape.(579) Paglia also believes that biology plays a major role in this topic as well. She says that men are biologically driven to and for sex. (579) She expresses in her essay “Hunt, pursuit and capture are biologically programmed into male sexuality”( Paglia 578-582). Feminists thinks that society is what saves women from men; and training, and educating men to be more refined is the action that is needed. Paglia says, “Women who do not understand rape can not defend themselves against it”(Paglia