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Mar 24·edited Mar 24

Great stuff. I particularly enjoyed 'Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality' and shared it for some laughs.

My last ex-girlfriend was a W&GS 'scholar' who would occasionally show me the drafts of papers she was working on, particulary her PhD thesis for which she couldn't even decide on a subject (last I heard it was going to be about wolves--which apparently wasn't a problem topic for a W&GS thesis at Texas Woman's University).

Every W&GS paper I ever read, no matter who the author or what the topic, was practically indistinguishable from every other one. You could play pseudo-intellectual bingo with every one ever written. Squares could be posit (sounds so much more authoritative than 'suppose', don't it?), structural, centering, deconstruction, colonialism, etc. It would make a good Livestream.

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