Camille Paglia: Cats are evil

[ThorsteinVeblen]

From Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personne":

Cats are prowlers, uncanny creatures of the night. Cruelty and play are one for them...They live by and for fear, practicing being scared or spooking humans by sudden rushings and ambushes. Cats dwell in the occult, that is, the "hidden"...the cat really is in league with chthonian nature, Christianity's mortal enemy...Compared to dogs, slavishly eager to please, cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

Happy Halloween!

[kwolf68]

1. Yea well

At least they bury their turds

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Not the ones that shit on my lawn!

They seems to prefer to make it as conspicuous as possible.

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[kwolf68]

10. Yea sure

.

[mlawson]

6. And they don't BARK 24/7, either!!!

I've had neighbors with barking dogs. Total hell.

[neuvocat]

2. Send her this link:

http://www.mycathatesyou.com

[Moochy]

16. Harry

From the Cruel name department
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/newlist.asp?CatName=mon5

[baldguy]

44. cat?

no, RAT!

and a fat one at that.

[joeybee12]

3. Is this bitch for real?

Seriously, is she trying to be funny, or does she really believe this?

She is the most whacked-out loonie out there--proof you don't have to be intelligent to become famous, just insane.

[jokerman93]

4. Camille! Camille!

C'mere Camille!

:yourock:

[Shakespeare]

7. Paglia's a nutball of the highest order.

And one of the biggest egomaniacs I have EVER encountered in my life.

She has forsaken scholarship to be controversial sheerly for the sake of being controversial. She is a parody, a joke, and an academic laughingstock.

[AquariDem]

11. A lesbian who hates women...

Thought I'd never see the day...

[Michael Harrington]

26. Like a lot of..

"Black Conservatives": she's a mediocre intellect who knew she'd never make it doing straightforward scholarship, so she decided to forasake that for the attention-getting device of being a woman who disses women all the time. It's hard to do if you have a soul and/or a conscience, but for her type...it's easy money.


Ashcroft hates cats, also. Thinks they're marked by The Beast.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

29. Comon-

Name a better "intellect" on the left. I think, at least, the first two chapters of "Sexual Personne" are going to be read (and absorbed) for the next 100 years - unlike Halek's tripe.

[lynndew2]

42. Can you incorperate this into your modest propsal

for the middle-east?

:D One of the greatest posts I have seen here!!!

[slappypan]

8. Another day, another Camille Haglia thread.

What gives?

[SiobhanClancy]

9. Well....

my cat Clancy says that Camille Paglia is a buffoon,and my other(calico)cat Siobhan is coming after Ashcroft:)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. I might add...

That my female vos Maeri Eclectus just said that Camille needs an ice water enema administered with a 3" firehose, fitted with a wide-angle nozzle, at 120 psi of pressure.

ASAP.

[Moochy]

17. Cats Hate Bush Administration

'My cat doesn't hate you or me, but Dick Cheney makes him so sick that he completely loses focus and sits in my lap, ranting for hours about that vile pink death-monkey.'

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/newlist.asp?CatName=carne_012203

[thebigidea]

13. gawd, this moron is soooooo passe

[ThorsteinVeblen]

23. ssssssssssssssssss....raaaaaaaawooooow...sssssssssss

[DBoon]

14. My dog likes cats

He'll swap recipes with you any day!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

15. Paglia has high amusement value and knows it. Academic dramaqueen.

The feline qualities she's waxing poetic about come from all cat's hunting techniques. They are ambushers. So they operate independently instead of in packs like dogs and wolves. That describes Paglia to a 'T.'

Paglia reveres strength and independance more than anything so she really angers those who are dealing with any victimization dynamic. Like rape. Paglia has written "big deal. get over it. don't let it happen to you again." Nice, hunh? Not very amusing, that...

[ThorsteinVeblen]

20. KorbySears: "Paglia is genius"

That is all I need to know.

[Philostopher]

18. "Christianity's mortal enemy..."

Silly Camille -- doesn't she know this is why so many of us dearly love our cats?

[ThorsteinVeblen]

19. Love your cats?

They don't love you back - all they want is pleasure.

[Philostopher]

24. I enjoy my cats because they're decorative.

I guess within the paradigm, my contract with the cats is about equal -- I expect that they will give me pleasure by providing a certain sinuous presence in my household. They do. They expect that I will provide food and a relatively clean place for them to shit. I do. We have an agreement.

I understand why some people don't like them. I just happen to enjoy their company for what it is. That's all there is to it here.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

25. Meeeowwww....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=347705

[Philostopher]

27. Aw, c'mon, Thorstein!

I ain't stupid enough to get sucked up in the whole 'BonsaiKitten' hoax -- people havin' strokes over it is one of the primary reasons I bailed on Usenet cat groups a few years ago! Anybody who didn't get that joke is too stupid for me.

I work with cats as a volunteer at an animal shelter. I know what they are, and I still like them -- but I know exactly what they are. I don't value them for anything they're not. They just happen to resonate on a certain frequency that pleases me, and I think that's enough.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

28. the problem with the internet

and email is that people have no visual cues from which to decipher the implied intention of the communicee. I live with two cats and love them to death.

meeoooow....

[LTR]

21. She just don't like pussy

That's all.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

22. Meeeeoooooow...

[roughsatori]

30. I love that book.

She is quite insane and very literate, but she thinks her strong point is her way of looking at pop culture and politics--she is wrong. That stuff is fun to read at times, but I like when she writes about canonical artists with her strange eye.

There is an interview with her at Salon now where she says she will vote for Dean (though she does not like him) and that she voted for Nader.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

31. "she is wrong."

Explain WHY she is wrong and I will marry your ass (as long as you are a girl).

[roughsatori]

32. then I think I should keep my explanation to myself

or else your chthonian nature may take control and force you to walk on the wild side this Halloween outside of gender expectations.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

33. roughmaori

my apollonain nature may be equal to my baccanian nature.

[roughsatori]

34. I am a Classicist in the body of a Romanticist (for real)

So I loved the "RoughMaori" neologism; or is it a portmanteau? (Explain the difference and I will marry your ass).

[ThorsteinVeblen]

35. We "Once were Warriors".

ne·ol·o·gism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-l-jzm)
n.
A new word, expression, or usage.
The creation or use of new words or senses.
Psychology.
The invention of new words regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.
A word so invented.
Theology. A new doctrine or a new interpretation of scripture.


I get the double/triple entendre here: Both of us doubt the epiphanic nature of my riming eponym. And I, for the record, emphatically deny any psychoitc orgin - maybe you were just using the word in the common sense.


port·man·teau ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pôrt-mnt, prt-, pôrtmn-t, prt-)
n. pl. port·man·teaus or port·man·teaux (-tz, -tz)
A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.

What do you mean??

n 1: a word formed by joining two others

Ah-ha!: Will you marry me? I'll settle for the glissando...

[roughsatori]

37. if you were a gay Maori you would be perfect

That is if I were doing the defining. I would guess there is a woman out there who would enjoy some Dionysian physicality with you after you woo her with your Apollonian mind.


I am aware of schizophrenics inventions of language and "clanging." I used to collect writings of mentally Ill Patients for a study of poetry and text "appropriation" that I never finished.

As for Portmanteau, I did mean the 2nd definition.
Etymology: Middle French portemanteau, from porter to carry + manteau mantle, from Latin mantellum -- more at PORT
Date: 1579
1 : a large suitcase
2 : a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog)

[ThorsteinVeblen]

39. Alas

I am enamored with the female sex.

My portamento(ic) urge is thoroughly oviparous.

[REP]

43. "Portmanteau Word"

was coined by Charles Lutwidge Dodson, better known as Lewis Carroll.

Neologism (literally "new word") is a 'fake' word; like 'medication' for medicine. A portmanteau word is two words combined in an unexpected way to form a new description, and I can't think of an example as I am ill.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

36. Woah cowgirl - don't edit yourself like that.

I might miss something.

[roughsatori]

38. And I saw "Once Were Warriors" in a movie theater

pre-agoraphobia, post-morphine addiction, and always, morpheme addicted.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

40. Absynthe - is that you?

Tell the truth.

You're not in LA, are you?

[roughsatori]

41. I've drunk Absinthe but never met the person

And on the opposite coast and can just about hear the Atlantic. If one looks into a mirror, why is left right and right left, but up is not down and down is not up? That was once considered a philosophical, not optical conundrum. I'm off to read that hoaxer Chatterton (AKA Rowley). May you find your dark lady and may I find my Maori. Good Night.