Darwinian Ape (talk | contribs) →Camille Paglia: re:Nblund |
|||
Line 77: | Line 77: | ||
:::Hi [[User:Nblund|Nblund]]—you say "'Readers can look it up on their own' seems like a justification for not having an encyclopedia at all." No, it is a "justification" for having separate articles. [[User:Bus stop|Bus stop]] ([[User talk:Bus stop|talk]]) 00:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
:::Hi [[User:Nblund|Nblund]]—you say "'Readers can look it up on their own' seems like a justification for not having an encyclopedia at all." No, it is a "justification" for having separate articles. [[User:Bus stop|Bus stop]] ([[User talk:Bus stop|talk]]) 00:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
||
:: @Nblund, the critics don't have to be neutral, and we are not using WP's voice for her views. There are other critics quoted in the article do we qualify them as feminists, no they are called art critics, performance artists etc. Frankly, I really don't know much about Paglia, but in any case using her name and occupation should be neutral enough, otherwise seems to me like a bit of POV pushing. In her page we describe her as " American academic and social critic." That should be enough. [[User:Darwinian Ape|<span style=" color:#0B0B3B; text-shadow: 3px 3px #C0C0C0;font-style: italic; font-family:'Britannic Bold';">Darwinian Ape</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Darwinian Ape| talk]]</sup> 01:14, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
:: @Nblund, the critics don't have to be neutral, and we are not using WP's voice for her views. There are other critics quoted in the article do we qualify them as feminists, no they are called art critics, performance artists etc. Frankly, I really don't know much about Paglia, but in any case using her name and occupation should be neutral enough, otherwise seems to me like a bit of POV pushing. In her page we describe her as " American academic and social critic." That should be enough. [[User:Darwinian Ape|<span style=" color:#0B0B3B; text-shadow: 3px 3px #C0C0C0;font-style: italic; font-family:'Britannic Bold';">Darwinian Ape</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Darwinian Ape| talk]]</sup> 01:14, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
||
:::I'm not suggesting that her criticisms need to be neutral, I'm saying that these non-neutral statements need to be contextualized. I think its likely that many readers will be unfamiliar with Paglia, and may be not be aware that her views considered to be outside the feminist and critical mainstream. Name and profession aren't really enough. Karl Rove and James Carville are both "professional political consultants", but I think it would be misleading to quote a political assessment from either one without mentioning their party affiliations. Paglia is similar: she's a critic, but she's far better known as a polemicist than as an academic. |
|||
::: The other art critics aren't identified by their ideologies because they aren't ideologues. Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith may be feminists, but they are really best known as art critics -- I don't know anything about their views on feminism because they don't publish them, AFAIK. [[User:Nblund|Nblund]] ([[User talk:Nblund|talk]]) 14:58, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
|||
===BLPN=== |
===BLPN=== |
||
A BLPN post was made related to this discussion. See [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Mattress_Performance_.28Carry_That_Weight.29]]. [[User:EvergreenFir|'''<span style="color:#8b00ff;">Eve</span><span style="color:#6528c2;">rgr</span><span style="color:#3f5184;">een</span><span style="color:#197947;">Fir</span>''']] [[User talk:EvergreenFir|(talk)]] <small>Please {{[[Template:re|re]]}}</small> 18:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC) |
A BLPN post was made related to this discussion. See [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Mattress_Performance_.28Carry_That_Weight.29]]. [[User:EvergreenFir|'''<span style="color:#8b00ff;">Eve</span><span style="color:#6528c2;">rgr</span><span style="color:#3f5184;">een</span><span style="color:#197947;">Fir</span>''']] [[User talk:EvergreenFir|(talk)]] <small>Please {{[[Template:re|re]]}}</small> 18:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC) |
Revision as of 14:58, 20 August 2015
![]() | This article is of interest to multiple WikiProjects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This page has archives. Sections older than 10 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 1 section is present. |
Camille Paglia
Deleted Paglia's reaction. <refactor BLP> (She blames the government being sideswiped by 9/11 on Bill Clinton not resigning after the Lewinsky scandal [1] ), and her comments come months after everyone else's. --A21sauce (talk) 18:29, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- While that's an unconventional theory it has no relevance here, and neither does the timing of her comments. I don't think there was a good reason for this revert. --Sammy1339 (talk) 18:37, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- Paglia is hardly an unknown and her opinions on Clinton are hardly extreme. A lot people thought he should have resigned for what could easily be considered a form of sexual harassment or misconduct (you know, a male superior having a sexual relationship with a very junior female subordinate in the workplace). She's an established academic on the topics of feminism. While Paglia may not go with your idea of the flow here, she's important enough to be interviewed by Salon. Salon is a major publication that is considered pretty liberal so you cannot even say they are biased towards a negative POV on the topic. Your personal opinion on Paglia has been noted, but we rely on reliable sources.Mattnad (talk) 18:56, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Paglia is known to be unconventional. Per WP:BIASED, Camile Paglia's POV should definitely be in-text attributed as the viewpoint of a "self-described dissident feminist". Also, it's wp:undue to give Paglia's brief comments it's own paragraph, quote her at length, and conclude the section with this content. I tweaked this and moved it up with the other art commentators. Senator Gillibrand and the reaction to Gillibrand's invitation of Sulkowicz to 2015 State of the Union Address seems much more significant and should end section with this content.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 22:40, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Article says "art world generally responded with enthusiasm" but cites no source. There are a few examples but it doesn't mean art world generally responded with enthusiasm. For all we know those examples could have been cherrypicked. Looks like original research --Nomad (talk) 08:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Pinging Sarah because I believe she added the content. I haven't had time to look over all the sources, but judging from these snippets:
Artnet cited it as "almost certainly ... one of the most important artworks of the year,"
andNew York magazine, included it in his list of the best 19 art shows of 2014
, it seems "with enthusiasm" appears to be fair paraphrasing. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 15:01, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- I can't see a problem with adding Paglia. As for "responded with enthusiasm," that's a topic sentence; it introduces the paragraph (or part thereof, in this case) and doesn't need its own source. It seems clear from the sources in the article, and others not added, that the response was enthusiastic. Sarah (talk) 18:16, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
BoboMeowCat, this is not an article about Camille Paglia. This edit is unacceptable. I understand the rationale that was given for that edit; I simply don't accept it. You gave WP:BIASED as a justification, but "self-described dissident feminist" is itself a notably non-neutral and biased expression; the "self-described" part in effect implies that Paglia isn't what she describes herself as being. Otherwise, she could simply be described as a dissident feminist. Your addition should be removed per WP:NPOV. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:23, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- There is praise and criticism to go around, but not just for the artist and the artwork, but for the school as well, hence I've made this edit. Bus stop (talk) 04:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think it's usually necessary to add a descriptor or qualification for a person who already has their own WP BLP. If someone wants to know more about Paglia and what she stands for, they can just click on the link and read the article about her. Cla68 (talk) 04:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Per WP:BIASED:
editors should consider whether the bias makes it appropriate to use in-text attribution to the source, as in "Feminist Betty Friedan wrote that...", "According to the Marxist economist Harry Magdoff...," or "Conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater believed that...".
. Please note that all of the examples given in WP:Biased already have a BLP, but they are sufficiently biased sources meaning that in-text attribution may be warranted. It seems clearly warranted with respect to Camile Paglia. It also seems important to note that a source referencing that text and discussing her views on Mattress Performance opens by addressing Paglia's bias and saying specifically:renowned and self-proclaimed “dissident feminist” Camille Paglia lambasted Columbia graduate Emma Sulkowicz’s mattress performance
[2]--BoboMeowCat (talk) 05:14, 17 August 2015 (UTC)- Your reply misses the point. The problem with "self-described dissident feminist" is that it is itself a biased description. It implies that Paglia isn't really what she says she is (what would you think it would imply if an article referred to someone as a "self-described law professor"?) FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:33, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- FreeKnowledgeCreator, I guess it's possible to interpret that way, but I didn't read it that way. Also, it is the specific phrasing the source referenced uses, and it also the specific phrasing used in Paglia's BLP. I read "self-described" in this case, not as a question of accuracy of that description, but rather a reflection of the fact that "dissident feminist" is not a widely used or known phrase, and it seems to actually be a descriptor that Paglia coined. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 05:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Whether you understand it that way personally is not the relevant issue. The issue is what it is likely to imply. That the source uses this specific wording does not mean that Wikipedia must do so also. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- The first source describes her as a social critic. Wouldn't that be more appropriate?Mattnad (talk) 10:25, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- This source describes her as a "cultural critic". I think that would be appropriate. Bus stop (talk) 12:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- It is not appropriate for us to introduce Paglia as a "dissident feminist". Our sentence reads "Art commentator and self-described dissident feminist, Camille Paglia, criticized the work…" An "art commentator" she clearly is. But "dissident feminist" is a far less clear term. "Feminist" itself is an unclear term. If someone adamantly denied that they were a feminist—that would likely be noteworthy. But aside from core concerns, "feminism" refers to a far ranging variety of responses to a basically older, "patriarchal" social arrangement between men and women. The term "dissident feminist" is being used lightheartedly by Paglia when she describes herself that way. By invoking such terminology she is noting that she has a history of rejecting mainstream feminists. This is a theme Paglia returns to repeatedly. She will say for instance "The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was."[3] There are many more such instances in the Salon/David Daley article. But that characterization is self-applied. This is a nuanced area. The label "dissident feminist" should not be used in our article as if it had some objective meaning that is ready for public consumption. Compare it to "art commentator". Is there any doubt as to what "art commentator" means? Bus stop (talk) 11:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- I've been reverted here the the argument being, in the edit summary: "Excessive, and she's not a law expert." There was no mention of anything of a legal nature—not in my wording, or in the source. Nevertheless, I'm going to leave that out, though I think it bears mentioning. I've reworded Paglia commentary in this edit. Bus stop (talk) 01:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- You guys need to stop revert warring with each other. Unless it's a BLP violation, let it stand for a few days while you talk it out. Cla68 (talk) 02:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- It's a BLP violation to simply use the adjective "feminist" to describe Paglia. She considers herself a "dissident feminist" which seems quite different.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 15:40, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hi BoboMeowCat—you say that one term "seems quite different" from another term. What distinction do you see between the term "feminist" and the term "dissident feminist"? Can you tell me what each of those terms denote and the distinction between the two terms? Bus stop (talk) 16:04, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- It's a BLP violation to simply use the adjective "feminist" to describe Paglia. She considers herself a "dissident feminist" which seems quite different.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 15:40, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- You guys need to stop revert warring with each other. Unless it's a BLP violation, let it stand for a few days while you talk it out. Cla68 (talk) 02:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- I've been reverted here the the argument being, in the edit summary: "Excessive, and she's not a law expert." There was no mention of anything of a legal nature—not in my wording, or in the source. Nevertheless, I'm going to leave that out, though I think it bears mentioning. I've reworded Paglia commentary in this edit. Bus stop (talk) 01:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- It is not appropriate for us to introduce Paglia as a "dissident feminist". Our sentence reads "Art commentator and self-described dissident feminist, Camille Paglia, criticized the work…" An "art commentator" she clearly is. But "dissident feminist" is a far less clear term. "Feminist" itself is an unclear term. If someone adamantly denied that they were a feminist—that would likely be noteworthy. But aside from core concerns, "feminism" refers to a far ranging variety of responses to a basically older, "patriarchal" social arrangement between men and women. The term "dissident feminist" is being used lightheartedly by Paglia when she describes herself that way. By invoking such terminology she is noting that she has a history of rejecting mainstream feminists. This is a theme Paglia returns to repeatedly. She will say for instance "The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was."[3] There are many more such instances in the Salon/David Daley article. But that characterization is self-applied. This is a nuanced area. The label "dissident feminist" should not be used in our article as if it had some objective meaning that is ready for public consumption. Compare it to "art commentator". Is there any doubt as to what "art commentator" means? Bus stop (talk) 11:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- This source describes her as a "cultural critic". I think that would be appropriate. Bus stop (talk) 12:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- The first source describes her as a social critic. Wouldn't that be more appropriate?Mattnad (talk) 10:25, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Whether you understand it that way personally is not the relevant issue. The issue is what it is likely to imply. That the source uses this specific wording does not mean that Wikipedia must do so also. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- FreeKnowledgeCreator, I guess it's possible to interpret that way, but I didn't read it that way. Also, it is the specific phrasing the source referenced uses, and it also the specific phrasing used in Paglia's BLP. I read "self-described" in this case, not as a question of accuracy of that description, but rather a reflection of the fact that "dissident feminist" is not a widely used or known phrase, and it seems to actually be a descriptor that Paglia coined. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 05:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Your reply misses the point. The problem with "self-described dissident feminist" is that it is itself a biased description. It implies that Paglia isn't really what she says she is (what would you think it would imply if an article referred to someone as a "self-described law professor"?) FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:33, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Per WP:BIASED:
- I don't think it's usually necessary to add a descriptor or qualification for a person who already has their own WP BLP. If someone wants to know more about Paglia and what she stands for, they can just click on the link and read the article about her. Cla68 (talk) 04:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- The fact that she is critical of mainstream feminism is key context for her statements that probably ought to be included as preface. The term "self described dissident feminist" occurs repeatedly in sources discussing her views (google news search), and it seems to capture her orientation and position among feminist fairly well. She explicitly embraces and explains the moniker in this interview.
- If the problem is solely the vagary of the term, how about "an academic who has been critical of mainstream feminism"? Nblund (talk) 16:43, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Even skimming Paige's article shows she's considered anti-feminist by tons of scholars and sources. She may label herself as such, but we cannot use that label without qualification given that so many sources disagree with it. Quibbling over the descriptor for her is frankly putting too much weight on her opinion ... just link to her page and let readers determine who she is. We don't need to describe her for them, especially when such description is difficult and contentious. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 17:24, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- Considering the content of the quotes from Paglia, which have been added to the article, some sort of in-text attribution seems needed per WP:BIASED; however, the detailed quotes from Paglia may be undue weight. If shortened and neutrally paraphrased, we may not need attribution per wp:biased. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 17:34, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hi BoboMeowCat—how would we neutrally paraphrase strong criticism? Bus stop (talk) 17:53, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- I agree with Evergreenfir, there is no need to call her feminist or anti feminist or dissident feminist or whatever else. Readers can easily go to her page and look her up if they are interested. Darwinian Ape talk 20:43, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- "Readers can look it up on their own" seems like a justification for not having an encyclopedia at all. Paglia is noted as a vocal critic of mainstream feminism and, more recently, of anti-rape activism. She is commenting on artwork that is closely tied to both mainstream feminism and to the anti-rape movement. Simply calling her a "cultural critic", or failing to offer any context at all for her views, gives the misleading impression that she is a neutral observer making an aesthetic judgement. Nblund (talk) 21:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Nblund, the critics don't have to be neutral, and we are not using WP's voice for her views. There are other critics quoted in the article do we qualify them as feminists, no they are called art critics, performance artists etc. Frankly, I really don't know much about Paglia, but in any case using her name and occupation should be neutral enough, otherwise seems to me like a bit of POV pushing. In her page we describe her as " American academic and social critic." That should be enough. Darwinian Ape talk 01:14, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not suggesting that her criticisms need to be neutral, I'm saying that these non-neutral statements need to be contextualized. I think its likely that many readers will be unfamiliar with Paglia, and may be not be aware that her views considered to be outside the feminist and critical mainstream. Name and profession aren't really enough. Karl Rove and James Carville are both "professional political consultants", but I think it would be misleading to quote a political assessment from either one without mentioning their party affiliations. Paglia is similar: she's a critic, but she's far better known as a polemicist than as an academic.
- The other art critics aren't identified by their ideologies because they aren't ideologues. Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith may be feminists, but they are really best known as art critics -- I don't know anything about their views on feminism because they don't publish them, AFAIK. Nblund (talk) 14:58, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
BLPN
A BLPN post was made related to this discussion. See Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Mattress_Performance_.28Carry_That_Weight.29. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 18:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC)