Where anyone can see
It’s always surprising and alarming to see academics this pugnaciously dogmatic in enforcing belief in absurd fictions. The belief itself is ridiculous, like believing in flying elephants or talking snakes, and the rudeness and contempt with which the belief is asserted is unbecoming to anyone and appalling in an academic.
“Fascists.” Because we understand that men are not women.
And she can’t defend her claim.
“I can’t hear you, lalalalalalalalala.” Grown-up academic, teaches at an actual university.
When she does hear it’s even worse.
My point exactly. I’ve learned to expect this kind of crap from very young random ideologues on Twitter, but I can never not be surprised to see it from people with academic reputations to protect. This Yvette Russell sounds like Rhys McKinnon on crack.
This is interesting:
“In my argument, the failure of such scholarship to theorize sexual difference as critical not only to understanding rape culture but to what is required to oppose it leads to a circular logic that stymies a critical feminist praxis of resistance to rape.”
“Sexual difference.” I wonder what that means?
As for the rest of it, it’s the sort of academic writing that I find off-putting: ” I argue that feminist antirape scholarship must look beyond the act of rape as its point of departure for resistant praxis and instead orient itself around radical ontologies of sexuate being that offer an alternative to those through which rape culture currently proliferates.”
It’s the kind of writing people deploy when they want to sound more technical and difficult than their subject matter actually is. That’s what annoys me most about it, I think – the faking it part.
This probably isn’t an original or interesting point but isn’t it likely that the sorts of transwomen that do get raped aren’t the ones likely to try to invade a rape shelter? Isn’t it more likely that the same sort of entitled little shits are just up skirting on a depraved new level?
I too am shocked at this kind of behavior out of an academic. I recently learned a little more about it when I made some minor investigations of some of the universities relatively close to me; I have been pondering returning to academia after many years in the corporate arena. A friend on facebook commented “Oh, James, don’t do it, you wouldn’t last a week at [local university]; it has become a woke hellhole”. She was right. My first afternoon of investigating there, I found “pronouns” and alphabet flags (even our city flag in the alphabet colors) on every building and corner and square. The first time a student demanded that I use their “preferred pronouns” would undoubtedly be my last working day.
Oh god, that’s so depressing.
I think the most disturbing bit in those posts is how this legal academic seems to think that there are situations where someone should be denied legal counsel.