I am really don't know if this is really a brilliant trolling effort or she actually believes what she is saying. It totally destroys what Harry Nicholas is trying to do.
My impression of queer theory, and all the rest of the postmodernist deconstructionist twaddle it's connected with, is that it's against the whole concept that words actually have meanings that tie to things in the real world, or even logical internal consistency. So this stuff is perfectly consistent with it.
I think it is okay to critically challange how words are used and ask if they embody unrecognized meanings. This is done however, to develop more precise and coherent terminology, nothing of which they are doing.
The issue is that they just throw together words with some meanings they have adopted without critically analyzing themselves. They have sloppy thinking and their theorizing is a mess. Their idea of defending their theories and structures isn't to critically analyze their own thinking nor to give a logical defense, but to denounce instead.
They give analysis a bad name by representing their ideological ranting as analysis.
My impression of queer theory, and all the rest of the postmodernist deconstructionist twaddle it's connected with, is that it's against the whole concept that words actually have meanings that tie to things in the real world, or even logical internal consistency. So this stuff is perfectly consistent with it.
I think it is okay to critically challange how words are used and ask if they embody unrecognized meanings. This is done however, to develop more precise and coherent terminology, nothing of which they are doing.
The issue is that they just throw together words with some meanings they have adopted without critically analyzing themselves. They have sloppy thinking and their theorizing is a mess. Their idea of defending their theories and structures isn't to critically analyze their own thinking nor to give a logical defense, but to denounce instead.
They give analysis a bad name by representing their ideological ranting as analysis.