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This feels like a boiling down a masters thesis from a women's studies thesis-> gender studies thesis -> human intersectionality thesis. (The names of this fiel
by pierat 3y ago
This feels like a boiling down a masters thesis from a women's studies thesis-> gender studies thesis -> human intersectionality thesis. (The names of this field try to distance themselves from their roots at every step, because even women know "women" is bad. Sigh. Just dumb sexism all the way down.)
The language they use has multiple overloading definitions, some of which conflict, and others are just completely opaque. And since it's about the "gender wars written from a woman", any critique will be tarred and feathered as "patriarchy".
For example, this is the second-to-last paragraph and single massive run-on sentence:
"It may well work in our favor to accelerate our way into Total Girl—that is, to consider the girl as a specific technology of subjectivity that maxes out on desire, attraction, replication, and cunning to achieve specific ends—and to use such technology to access something once unknowable about ourselves rather than for simple capital gains, blowing a kiss at individually-scaled pleasures while really giving voice to the egregore, the totality of not just information, but experience, affect, emotion."
That's just dense-prose-diarrhea that basically means nothing. There's at least 6 different definitions of "girl", and which this sentencegraph uses different ones than above. And mixing para-psychology, science, technology, and occultism gives the "aura" (HAH!) that they have and know more than the rest. And in the end it reads like a cross between a newspaper horoscope, the "History Channel" (aliens!), and a rerun of 1990's Outer Limits.
- bowsamic 3y agoYou should see some of Hegel's run-on sentences...speaking of which, that's even immensely clear compared to Hegel
- pierat 3y agoI find the needless complexity in any realm to be distracting and usually not worth my time. The needless complexity is usually a marker that it's for others on the "in crowd" for the thing, and primarily used as a exclusion tool. I get that complexity is needed, and reducing something too much destroys the ideas behind it. But packing up to 6 different definitions in a single word is just... stupid. It's like confusion is the point, and it's being used as a weapon to berate anyone who complains.
- bowsamic 3y agoI don't think it's the authors' choice what the word means lol. The "6 definitions" are how people use it in the English language People are expecting this woman to play God, it seems