I remember when people thought she was a good feminist.

They thought that because all they knew about her was that she had, through her experience with women in domestic violence shelters, realised that feminist narratives about domestic violence were complete fucking nonsense.

Somehow, people thought this one bit of awareness, born of her own direct experience, meant she understood the reality of things she had not experienced. This would have beena reasonable expectation, but it would require Paglia to have taken the realization that feminism was talking out of its arse on domest violence, and asked herself the question 'What else is feminism wrong about, and why am I calling myself a feminist when I know they are wrong?'

These are questions she has never, ever asked herself. She uncritically swallows feminist dogma on that which she has no direct experience of herself. Like the person who keeps reading the same newspaper even after seeing them get something completely backwards.