Academic take-down of trans ideology

[Fallingirl]

Jane Clare Jones has just published this very good blog post on a post-structuralist approach to trans ideology. She explains how the well-meaning ‘woke’ theorists mistake ‘binaries’, and the deconstruction of them, for naturally occuring ‘differences’.

janeclarejones.com/2018/10/01/a-note-on-smashing-the-binary/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

"One thing this debate has made screamingly, terrifyingly, evident to me is the rightness of the French feminist assertion that – within the binary conceptual structure of Western thought – women do not actually exist. If we did, our being would never have been so easily handed over by nearly everyone concerned, and the appropriation we are resisting would never have been so easily caricatured as an act of illegitimate hatred."

This ^ absolutely

Excellent, thanks for sharing Fallingirl

That was really interesting, and very accessible! Good share, thanks

It always bothered me how post-structuralism has been hijacked by trans ideology.

It is quite bizarre how anyone would think a post-structuralist approach could completely ignore existing power structures and power dynamics. Anyone thinking they are “subverting” anything by claming men are women if they say so, is being willfully ignorant.

Oh, man. I love Jane. Such clarity.

This is evidently absurd – both because a) the difference between males and females is not made by discourse, and b) the way it is coded in discourse is not given by the difference, and to think it is, is to mistake narcissistic patriarchal opposition for reality.

It is quite bizarre how anyone would think a post-structuralist approach could completely ignore existing power structures and power dynamics.

Indeed. Any hyper-individulaist ideology such as this will inevitably default to extant power structures - men, however they decide to identify. Pippa Bunce = QED.