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Camille Paglia

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The Resume

    (April 2, 1947- )
    Wrote 'Sexual Personae (1990),' 'Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992),' 'Vamps and Things (1994),' 'Madonna Megastar (1994)' and 'Sex in N.Y. City: An Illustrated History (2002)'
    Teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia

Why she might be annoying:

    She is unbelievably arrogant and pretentious.
    As a young woman, she often got in trouble for brawling and playing pranks.
    Many feminists despise her for defending prostitution, pornography and kinky sex.
    She described rape as 'what used to be called unbridled love.'
    She supports NAMBLA and wants the age of consent to be lowered to 14.
    She calls AIDS 'nature's revenge' for promiscuity.
    Her writing style is clunky and boring.
    She looks like an even more lesbian Deborah Harry.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She describes herself as a 'libertarian conservative.'
    She was forced to resign from Bennington College because she was gay.
    She thinks many feminists need to loosen up.
    Although an atheist, she is very interested in religion.
    She pisses off liberals, conservatives, homosexuals, heterosexuals, feminists and sexists alike.
    She gets a lot of hate mail.
    She thinks 'loudmouths' like herself, Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh are important because they get people to think.
    She says: 'The more a woman takes off her clothes, the more power she has.'

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 98 Votes: 66.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 158 Votes: 44.30% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 400 Votes: 77.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 139 Votes: 46.76% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 96 Votes: 53.12% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 62 Votes: 62.90% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 114 Votes: 61.40% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 254 Votes: 73.23% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 768 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 59 Votes: 81.36% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 45 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 71 Votes: 66.20% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 155 Votes: 74.19% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 100 Votes: 59.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 135 Votes: 60.74% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 163 Votes: 70.55% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 629 Votes: 69.16% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 19 Votes: 73.68% Annoying