(Foucault is still tied with Freud for the theorist who made me shoutiest in undergrad. Unsurprisingly, with both, it was regarding women.)
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Foucault says insightful and useful things, but, much like with Freud and Marx, people take it too damn far, and obscure important stuff.
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Foucault is annoyed that classics students spend so much time mastering difficult languages. Well, yeah, but what's the /fix/ for that?
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I would love to spend less time /learning/ Greek and more time analyzing texts, but, y'know. Ancient Greek. Turns out it's hard.
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Now he appears to be annoyed at how academic systems work. Which, again: fair structural critique, but! I do indeed object to his argument…
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…that getting more women into classics departments is merely "cosmetic" if they use the same study patterns as the men. Nope!
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More women already there -> more women later who might change things. That's how structural problems can be changed!
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Disdaining imperfect incremental solutions is a good way to go "Gosh, that structure, so evil!" while taking no responsibility to change it.
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"Women in classics do the same scholarship the men do" is not a solution to the type of scholarship men do, but it's /progress/ on it.
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...sorry. I am completely incapable of reading about Foucault in any capacity without finding a new thing to yell at him about.
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the fault in our Foucault
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