17 January

Paglia is like Greer, an older feminist with serious scholarship behind her. It’s hard to comment on modern gender politics without sounding like you’re trying to defend one of the two ‘sides’. Both sides are bananas. Having sides is bananas. “A peevish, grudging rancor against men has been one of the most unpalatable and unjust features of second- and third-wave feminism. Men’s faults, failings and foibles have been seized on and magnified into gruesome bills of indictment.”