Ah, Camille! I’ve been a sort of fan of Camille Paglia for awhile now (see Kansas City Star review), but I must say — diplomatically — that her thought processes often mystify me. From her Salon column (answering letters, the easiest cheat in journalism, as I can attest to as a columnist for several magazines and newspapers over the years): Thank you very much for this important clarification. When Wyoming joined the Union in 1890, it was allowed to keep women’s suffrage. As late as 1915, the state legislatures of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey (in the supposedly more cultured Northeast) rejected women’s right to vote. But the Western states had been far more open-minded. Washington state granted women’s suffrage in 1910, California in 1911, Montana and Nevada in 1914. Frontier men obviously found it...
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