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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
As you suspect, it's all just postmodern gobbledygook.

I wish I could remember the FReeper that can generate that stuff. He can spit out a paragraph of complex-sounding total nonsense quicker than you can say "no marketable skills involved". He learned it as camoflage to survive college, but it's a frightening thing to see nonetheless.
17 posted on 12/09/2002 1:29:29 PM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
Your reference to queer theory as "gobbledy-gook" (a word with clearly racist, orientalist roots) betrays your willingness to participate and valorize the hegemonic/phallocentric system of contradictions which victimizes and places under erasure the concerns and self-validation of the differently gendered.
19 posted on 12/09/2002 1:42:10 PM PST by wideawake
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To: FreedomPoster
“For me, ‘queer’ is a gender-neutral term with which I identify that also includes my Native American self-identification as being two-spirited in the context of a normative culture,” said sophomore Marlon Footracer, president of Querillas.

It means that young Mr. Footracer is broadminded enough to consider himself a boy (or a girl) and queer, and Indian, all at once! Stunning, the effect of a modern university education on a rock...

30 posted on 12/09/2002 1:58:00 PM PST by Billthedrill
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