Camille Pagia on Special Pronouns

"Take a hike!"

This post is our 3rd in the dissenter series. Here we present takes by prominent people on cultural flash-points.

This partial transcription is of professor and author Camille Paglia. Paglia earned her PhD in literature from Yale.

Here she responds to a question about professor Jordan Peterson’s refusal to use special pronouns.

Here is her response in part.

To view her entire answer, play the video below.

Well, more power to him, okay, is what I say.

This is getting ridiculous.

. . .

But this political agitation to change everyday common speech, are you kidding me?

People shouldn't be putting up with this for 1 second.

What kind of nonsense is this? Absolute nonsense, okay.

How dare you . . . tell us how we’re going to use pronouns!

And these people who are searching for their own identity, okay, and want to impose on others, that is not my philosophy as a libertarian.

That is an invasion, an intrusion into other people's personal rights . . .

So excuse us, the English language is owned by everyone.

It was created by great artists . . . Chaucer and Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Joyce and so on.

How dare you, you sniveling little maniacs, tell us how we're going to use pronouns!

"Go take a hike!" I say to them.