https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqrwKkrCzOY
She is a Whig pop figure masquerading as a classicist historicist.
Totally faux. She knows a lot, of course, and it is eye candy, but it is in the service of her very 20th Century perv ideology.
The ancient Greeks weren't Paglia Greeks, never later converted to Christianity.
This, her view, paganism was never superceded by Christianity, dovetails now with the now popular Whig view that Rome never really fell at all (rather like the holocaust never really happened, global warming is a hoax), and certainly not with the albeit admittedly overestated Gibbon esque view that it was killed off by Christianity.
This idiotic Whig view, re Rome, is criticized by Ward-Perkins in The Fall Of Rome And The End Of Civilization.
The Renaissance was not just a group of pagan queers....
The 60s here, for all its other faults, and few virtues, was not mainly about being queer, either.
She worships Bowie. His costumes, etc. His music. I don't. The degenerate pop industry.
For some of the same reasons, criticisms of Jagger are valid.
I remain fond of Callas' artistry, coincidentally beloved of many queers, but I am not.
The Renaissance was not just a group of pagan queers....
The 60s here, for all its other faults, and few virtues, was not mainly about being queer, either.
She worships Bowie. His costumes, etc. His music. I don't. The degenerate pop industry.
For some of the same reasons, criticisms of Jagger are valid.
I remain fond of Callas' artistry, coincidentally beloved of many queers, but I am not.
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