Camille Paglia

On Date Rape is an essay written by American social critic Camille Paglia, which addresses what she believes to be the reality of rape at universities. Ignoring the controversy behind this essay, there are other significant problems with the writing. Pagila wrote a total of five short paragraphs in order to create this essay, yet not any of them are free of errors in reasoning. Otherwise known as logical fallacies, these errors in reasoning undermine the majority of the supporting factors and logic that are supposed to help Paglia express her opinion on the subject of rape. Despite the fact that there is a plentiful amount of logical fallacies throughout the text, there are three prominent examples that significantly impact the essay and are relatively easy to identify: hasty generalization, slippery slope, and appeal to fear.…

An article on the San Francisco Examiner called “On Date Rape” by Camille Paglia, a humanities professor and cultural critic shares her opinion on today’s dating and rape. Paglia states that it was her generation in the 60’s that “broke the rules” and opened the doors for “freedom” for women. However, she claims that women of today do not acknowledge the risks for “freedom.” On the article, she displays countless of fallacies and weaknesses in reasoning, which might object her position as a…

heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality.” As for grounding Cyrus’ image, O’Connor states that she has enough talent to change the world, and if anyone is asking you to do it through sexuality, they do not respect your talent. Additionally, she suggests that she does not care for herself. As a role model for women and Miley herself, O’Connor concludes by telling Miley, “we are role models in this…

physical or psychological harms. In her article On Date Rape, Camille Paglia proposes her advices to young females with regard to personal safety. However, in spite of her good intention, there is little in this article that can be convincing and reasoning in demonstrating the conditions of women today. In the first and second paragraph, Paglia makes her first mistakes of double standard. Paglia claims that her generation…

“It is absurd and unjust that young Americans can vote, marry, enter contracts and serve in the military at 18 but cannot buy an alcoholic drink in a bar or restaurant.” A statement made by Camille Paglia in Its Time to Let Teenagers Drink Again. Although this article was well written and made some good point I have to disagree with the statements made by Paglia for three main reasons. One being her lack of connection to the issue bring big weakness to her argument and second that this article…

I found the article of "Camille Paglia: Women Aren’t Free Until Speech Is" interesting to read and to think about. It points out the issue of no freedom of speech, which is one of the biggest problems we currently have [1]. The free speech movement "erupted at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964" (Paglia). The movement began in a university that does not support the freedom of speech anymore. For example, the students took over the streets when a right-wing commentator, Milo…

of Maximilien Luce’s most famous pieces of art, is “Notre-Dame”(1901). This painting was sold in May 2011 for 4,200,000, this was the most expensive piece of art that was created by Maximilien Luce. Another very well-known painting is, “Etude d’Homme, Pécheur”, this painting displays the backside a fisherman who is at work. This was Maximilien Luce’s way of symbolizing the working class. Another very significant painting is, “La Commune”(1903-1905), this painting displays dead bodies lying on a…

Camille Claudel, a noteworthy sculptor and graphic designer from France, was responsible for the creation of multiple fine works of art throughout her long career. Though she was relatively obscure as an artist during her life, she and her works would later gain recognition and notoriety after her death in 1943. This paper will analyze one of these works, La Fortune created 1902-1905. Through the analysis of this artwork, an understanding of Camille Claudel, her life, her art style, and the time…

On Date Rape and Fallacious Arguments Camille Paglia is not a stranger to writing divisive editorials. As a self-proclaimed ‘social critic’, she said in response to criticism of her first book “Sexual Personae” published in 1990, “it was intended to please no one, and to offend everyone” (20Q). Thus, it should be no surprise that she has views on date rape that are unpopular for the current social mindset. In her editorial “On Date Rape”, Paglia declares “my kind of feminism stresses personal…

of date rape is simply mixed signals. The articles “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminist Know” by Camille Paglia and “Common Decency” by Susan Jacoby both elaborate on the topic of rape and date rape. The two writers have much to say about this topic but each reach a different conclusion. Between these articles it is obvious that the stronger article is “Common Decency,” because her argument is more effective and balanced than that of Paglia who has a less balanced argument. Susan Jacoby’s…