I am obsessed with this woman.
This may be the best thing she has written: https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2017/09/Arion-Camille-Paglia-Junkbonds-Corporate-Raiders.pdf
She also extrapolates on what I said a few months ago about women being followers and men being more natural loners, often to their detriment. Women seek female companionship and acceptance far more than men seek male companionship and acceptance. This is why girls are often so well behaved at school: they don't want to rock the boat. Whereas boys are more willing to. This is often articulated in a sociological phenomenon (i.e. "girls have higher social expectations placed upon them to be well behaved") but I am arguing it from a biological framework as well. This is further exemplified in female mate selection. Women want the man all the other women want even if they previously were not attracted to that man. Simply finding out other women want him makes her want him.
More data:
The women were asked to rate how attractive they found each image before being shown the average rating given by the rest of the group.
Interestingly, when the women were asked to re-rate each image shortly after, their answer changed in favour of the social information.
On average, a participant changed their initial rating by around 13 per cent when rating the attractiveness of men’s faces depending on what other women had said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women-men-relationships-more-attractive-dating-romance-university-study-a8185026.htmlewomen performed significantly better and were more prudent in identifying norm violations while being confident in their ability to follow social norms better when compared to men — who had limited abilities when it came to an understanding and following rules. Similar findings have been confirmed by different research investigations across the globe, especially in the context of following norms during the covid-19 pandemic.
https://feminisminindia.com/2022/07/06/women-are-better-rule-followers-than-men-but-what-does-it-get-them/Fascinating. Women care more about female opinion and consensus more than men care about male consensus.
And this brings us to Camille Paglia, a woman that describes herself as transgender and never felt female in her entire life.
"There's no female Mozart because there's no female Jack the Ripper." Wow.
It's also interesting how she's right. Men obsess in a way women don't. Women can be highly talented, often more than men, but women are less selfish and more willing to give up a pursuit. This is why you see so many career women give up their careers and settle down with a man. Yeah, they live a less rich life but she's happy. Men though. Men obsess and get tunnell visioned with our eye on the prize. This leads to an effect where we are selfish but we end up damn good in the things we obsess over.
There's a video, and I'll try to find it, where Camille expresses that women NEED female socialization like they need air to function and that research shows that women that have a strong female social network tend to get breast cancer at lower rates. Men aren't like that. We like our bros but socialization like air? No way man.
From a biological perspective this is all fascinating AF to me.
