Why can't this woman...stay out of my Saturday Globe?

I cherish my weekend coffee and paper routine, so was annoyed (actually, further annoyed, since I'd just weathered Leah McLaren's typical self-congratulatory assfest) to see the cover of the "Books" section today devoted to the even more heinous Camille Paglia.

In an article entitled "Why can't a woman...", everyone's favourite anti-feminist (who counts among her fans the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher) presents a superficially benign discussion of women in power in the context of a series of book reviews. In a scant single page she flogs a number of her pet dead horses, including dismissing mainstream feminists (too domestic) and women's studies courses (male-bashing), confusing military might with political effectiveness, and wishing ever-so-hard that women would just go ahead and become men ("This is the new feministm. The path to power for women lies through male territory".)

Sure, "Books" is just a fluffy weekend supplement, but it makes no sense for what is supposed to be Canada's slightly more progressive national paper to provide a platform for an American reactionary to talk about issues for which she's universally considered ill-informed and unqualified (hint: if everyone from Naomi Wolf to Katha Pollitt thinks you're an asshole, things are looking bad). Paglia already has far more than enough of an audience with Salon, and besides: we've got our own libertarian crackpots...why borrow from the States?