This is where standpoint theory inevitably ends up - identity becomes an epistemological trump card. (And this is why standpoint theory is not postmodern, because postmodernism allows no grounds to privilege one standpoint over another).https://twitter.com/lillydancyger/status/1008838121197273088 …
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It's true that most standpoint theorists argue that standpoint theory is objectivist, ie, that there are social facts, and that people who occupy subordinated social positions have privileged epistemic access to the unjust social reality in which they are subordinated.
Hartsock, riffing off Lukacs, makes exactly this point. She pretty much claims that the very nature of masculinity rules out the possibility of epistemological insight.