This is a bit off-topic, but do you really recommend Irigaray? The two things I’ve heard about her have been pretty damning. One was from a friend in a Lit Theory class, who mocked her idea that women have a different nature than men because female genitals are continually touching themselves, while male genitals are not (or something like that). The other was from Alan Sokal, who attributed to her the belief that fluid mechanics had been ignored in favor of rigid body mechanics because fluids were soft and feminine while rigid bodies were hard and masculine. Both of these claims are ridiculous, but of course they may have been misreported, and they may not be representative.
Since you say you work in technology, I’d imagine you would be unlikely to uncritically accept claims like the fluid mechanics one (relative to the average audience for deconstructionists), so I’m curious about your opinion.
frelkins,
This is a bit off-topic, but do you really recommend Irigaray? The two things I’ve heard about her have been pretty damning. One was from a friend in a Lit Theory class, who mocked her idea that women have a different nature than men because female genitals are continually touching themselves, while male genitals are not (or something like that). The other was from Alan Sokal, who attributed to her the belief that fluid mechanics had been ignored in favor of rigid body mechanics because fluids were soft and feminine while rigid bodies were hard and masculine. Both of these claims are ridiculous, but of course they may have been misreported, and they may not be representative.
Since you say you work in technology, I’d imagine you would be unlikely to uncritically accept claims like the fluid mechanics one (relative to the average audience for deconstructionists), so I’m curious about your opinion.
[checks] As of this writing, my penis is touching my testicles.