When Camp Transcends Mere Good And Bad

“To Barthes, the neutral is ‘everything that baffles the paradigm,’ the paradigm being the conflict-based ideologies and associated choices that culture forces on us, uninvited and unannounced, on a daily basis. Here are some big ones: masculine/feminine, gay/straight, conservative/liberal.” Can camp really baffle the paradigm? Well, take Rob Lowe and Snow White at the 1989 Oscars …