The goal, as with things like systemic racism, is to help both men and women get out from under a damaging system.
But PoMo undermines this. It valorises confirmation biases. We are taught how to practice confirmation bias in universities.
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That was not my experience at all. Can you give examples for me?
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If you want to find racism, read everything as racist. Same for sexism & homophobia etc.
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Where you never asked 'Do a feminist reading' 'Do a queer reading' 'Do a Marxist reading' & get completely different meanings from a text?
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This can be a fun experiment in seeing how differently we can read but when this goes into activism, ppl pick one & declare it true.
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When people reify it as truth, that's a mistake, but it's not unique to PoMo and can still be challenged within the system.
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I am talking about PoMo. Those sets of ideas are called postmodernism.
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If anyone is saying discourses create knowledge, knowledge is subjective, gender is a social construct etc etc, they're doing postmodernism.
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My profs used the symbolism of different lenses. Put on feminist lenses & you only see things in terms of how women are disadvantaged etc.
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For me, lenses were different modes of critique, not biases you assumed as essentially true merely by considering them.
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