It cracks me up because, while I <3 Butler's theory and subject matter she suffers from the academic feminist disease of pretentiouswordyism (as opposed to my makeupawordyism disorder). It makes her virtually unreadable unless you are skooled special for it. It's classist, in my opinion.
If she has such great fucking ideas why doesn't she share them with EVERYBODY?
I had a lot of issues in school studying stratification when most of the articles I was reading couldn't be read very easily unless you were schooled in academia-speak. Kind of odd that such radical texts were so fucking in assessable.
That's why I like bell hooks work on poverty and classism. Its readable for everybody.
FOR REAL. I love reading about classism in classist lanquage. Makes me hott.
I love that about bell hooks too, but I think theory could be even more accessible - even hooks uses stringy phrases like white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Which I think makes your average reader roll their eyes.
I think someday I wanna write the field guide to feminism. Like, how to USE it - not keep it on a shelf to impress potential dates.
Dude, Catharine MacKinnon is my heroine, but she's the WORST.
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It cracks me up because, while I <3 Butler's theory and subject matter she suffers from the academic feminist disease of pretentiouswordyism (as opposed to my makeupawordyism disorder). It makes her virtually unreadable unless you are skooled special for it. It's classist, in my opinion.
Which I find intensely un-feminist.
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If she has such great fucking ideas why doesn't she share them with EVERYBODY?
I had a lot of issues in school studying stratification when most of the articles I was reading couldn't be read very easily unless you were schooled in academia-speak. Kind of odd that such radical texts were so fucking in assessable.
That's why I like bell hooks work on poverty and classism. Its readable for everybody.
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I love that about bell hooks too, but I think theory could be even more accessible - even hooks uses stringy phrases like white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Which I think makes your average reader roll their eyes.
I think someday I wanna write the field guide to feminism. Like, how to USE it - not keep it on a shelf to impress potential dates.
Dude, Catharine MacKinnon is my heroine, but she's the WORST.
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