The Worst Article of All Time Du Jour: Judith Butler: "Why Is the Idea of 'Gender' Provoking Backlash the World Over?"

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Look, that may be one of the worst things I've ever read, even by the standards of pomo-y Continental-y literary pseudophilosophy.

It's terrible...but at least it goes on and on

and on

and on

That's the sort of thing that it would be somewhat amusing and somewhat gratifying to take apart line by line...but it would waste and enormous amount of my increasingly decreasing time...and would really do no one any good. Anyone who can be at all persuaded by a giant steaming pile of lefty, faux-academic bullshit like that probably can't be reached by actual, rational argument. It's almost impossible to believe that such incoherent gibberish has conquered the USA and much of the free world...

But here we are...

Oh, here's maybe my absolute favorite bit:

Anti-gender movements are not just reactionary but fascist trends, the kind that support increasingly authoritarian governments. The inconsistency of their arguments and their equal opportunity approach to rhetorical strategies of the left and right, produce a confusing discourse for some, a compelling one for others. But they are typical of fascist movements that twist rationality to suit hyper-nationalist aims. [my emphasis]

Let me respond to that with a meme:

Someday, maybe I will go through that stinking cesspool of academic-left Newspeak, just for fun.

But not today.

Today, I just don't have the stomach--nor the time--for it.