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Tenaciously Terfin's avatar

Great piece, thank you. Gender ideology is the perfect cover for predators and when you look at the ‘founders’ of Queer Theory it would appear that they created it specially for that purpose.

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Daniel James's avatar

I appreciate that Hegelians and their Marxist descendants love contradiction, as they believe it produces ripe dialectical fruit. However I have not yet understood why they thought they would get away with the hypocrisy at the heart of queer theory. If truth is just power, then the power of an adult over a child where the formation of truth is concerned makes adults dictators. Foucault's defenders apparently don't see the irony in the great liberator's abuse of colonised boys. And of course Marx got his slave girl pregnant.

Perhaps some us were misinformed that queer theory is a critique of hegemonic power. Instead, it can be understood as a user manual for achieving that power. Fortunately, this method is only effective in the short term, as long as other people are willing to defend the notion of objective reality. One day you're the head of a government-funded NGO, the next day you're in prison.

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