Given that almost no ideas are explicitly labelled masculine or feminine in modern (English-speaking) culture, you are presumably either ignoring English-speaking culture or contending it is subconscious.
You’re not up on the current state of the cutting edge of postmodernist academia. It’s a scary place for those who think reality exists.
(Postmodernism is not inherently rubbish—it is indeed a fantastically useful tool in criticism and understanding of human culture, and other human activities that might as well be culture. As Lucidfox points out, rather more is relative than most people assume, and postmodernism is useful in working out what that is. Any writer should IMO have a working familiarity with its tools. However, some proponents really don’t realise that reality exists, and they end up slightly embarrassed.)
If you’re knowledgeable about postmodernism, it could be worthwhile to write a little “postmodernism for rationalists” intro. (in fact, hey, aren’t you the guy from … oh)
You’re not up on the current state of the cutting edge of postmodernist academia. It’s a scary place for those who think reality exists.
(Postmodernism is not inherently rubbish—it is indeed a fantastically useful tool in criticism and understanding of human culture, and other human activities that might as well be culture. As Lucidfox points out, rather more is relative than most people assume, and postmodernism is useful in working out what that is. Any writer should IMO have a working familiarity with its tools. However, some proponents really don’t realise that reality exists, and they end up slightly embarrassed.)
If you’re knowledgeable about postmodernism, it could be worthwhile to write a little “postmodernism for rationalists” intro. (in fact, hey, aren’t you the guy from … oh)
I didn’t write that article, but I did write the last paragraph of the intro :-)
I am tempted to rewrite it for RW, but I really am not expert enough on pomo to write it to the robustness it would require to survive on LW.
I’d like to read it, if only to clear the confusion about the myriad contradicting definitions of that term.