(Contrarianism) Perhaps the one area in which I actually have some sympathy for academic PoMo is in their concept of fluid identities.
Hmm. Not so much. Culturally constructed identities which ppl need to rewrite in accordance w positive cultural stereotypes
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I'm opposed to the authoritarian part of telling people what to do of course.
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Of course. But what do you means by their embrace of fluid identities?
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The obvious one is the whole debate over gender identities. Is it fluid, or is it discrete?
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So, some PoMo types want to downplay the hard biological male female thing and view gender as more like a spectrum you can shift up and down
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Which horrifies some evo-psych types who instead emphasise the reality of sex differences and their discrete nature.
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Sex & gender being different things.
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Yeah, I probably mean sex.
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I think PoMos do give wiggle room for variation in gendered traits but on a false premise & less well than evo psych.
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The idea that ppl invent themselves is liberal humanist. PoMos rejected this & saw ppl as conduits for discourses.
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