She’ll make few liberal friends (if she still has any) with her latest blast of the hypocritical left, but whip-sharp cultural critic Camille Paglia thinks Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton have a lot in common — at least when it comes to women.
Saying the Cosby scandal poses an intellectual problem for the Hillary Clinton campaign, Paglia explained that the Clintons and their feminist defenders have always been joined by a lack of principle, by compromised ideals.
“Right from the start, when the Bill Cosby scandal surfaced, I knew it was not going to bode well for Hillary’s campaign, because young women today have a much lower threshold for tolerance of these matters,” Paglia told a Salon interviewer. “The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was.”
But that was then, she warned. Young, feminist-trending voters today don’t remember or care about the Clinton White House. So Hillary, therefore, can’t rely on the Clintons’ “reservoir of accumulated good wiil.”
The Cosby scandal, which pits the aging comic against dozens of women who allege he drugged and raped them, bears some of the same psychological hallmarks that the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinski scandal bore, Paglia added.
She even suggested that Cosby and Clinton, in a way, must resort to a sort of proxy necrophilia in order to gain any pleasure from sexual encounters.
Gear up; this is a long (but fascinating) quote:
Everything is not black and white, for heaven’s sake! We are formed by all kinds of strange or vague memories from childhood. That kind of understanding is needed to see that Cosby was involved in a symbiotic, push-pull thing with his wife, where he went out and did these awful things to assert his own independence. But for that, he required the women to be inert. He needed them to be dead! Cosby is actually a necrophiliac — a style that was popular in the late Victorian period in the 19th century.
It’s hard to believe now, but you had men digging up corpses from graveyards, stealing the bodies, hiding them under their beds and then having sex with them. So that’s exactly what’s happening here: to give a woman a drug, to make her inert, to make her dead is the man saying that I need her to be dead for me to function. She’s too powerful for me as a living woman. And this is what is also going on in those barbaric fraternity orgies, where women are sexually assaulted while lying unconscious. And women don’t understand this! They have no idea why any men would find it arousing to have sex with a young woman who’s passed out at a fraternity house. But it’s necrophilia — this fear and envy of a woman’s power.
And it’s the same thing with Bill Clinton: to find the answer, you have to look at his relationship to his flamboyant mother. He felt smothered by her in some way. But let’s be clear — I’m not trying to blame the mother! What I’m saying is that male sexuality is extremely complicated, and the formation of male identity is very tentative and sensitive — but feminist rhetoric doesn’t allow for it.
No wonder Paglia ranks as one of the modern progressive movement’s most hated old-school liberals.
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