case you wondered: no, knowing the theoretical underpinnings doesn't make it sound any less weird when feminists refer to people as "bodies"
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...as a simple synonym for "people" so as to sound hep to academic lingo
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used in crit race theory the term is supposed to be weird/creepy/distressing/poetic. Folks shouldn't use it as "people" synonym.
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I find it roughly as distressing as "consumers" being used to describe people
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(by which I mean: quite a bit)
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