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...Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon...
Some attractions know no cultural bounds. They are taken up by different people and made into tales of their own, like the story of the Messiah or of Santa Claus. Or, now, even the infamous John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt...
Union checker Lorena Vicente says she recognizes "most of the people. Every year it's the same." She turns away to swipe a student's card, greeting the undergraduate by name...
John Wayne Bobbitt, who earlier this year beat charges of abusing his famous knife-wielding wife, Lorena, was convicted late Tuesday on a second domestic battery charge against another woman. After a Las Vegas jury found Bobbitt guilty of brutalizing his ex-fiancee, former topless dancer Kristina Elliott, Municipal Court Judge Ron Parraguirre called him a "bully." The ex-Marine already served most of a 15-day sentence this month for a similar incident...
...second time in as many months, John Wayne Bobbitt has been arrested for domestic battery against his fiancee, former topless dancer Kristina Elliott. The couple met five months ago while Bobbitt was on tour after gaining national notoriety when his wife Lorena severed his penis. Lorena Bobbitt argued that her actions were the result of years of sexual and psychological abuse by her husband.parpar