[Xenalyte]

Bloom was held in great disdain when I was at the University of Houston.

But then, the freaks I went to school with thought Derrida, Foucault, and Irigaray were the last word in lit crit.

[Borges]

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense criticizes Irigaray, as a general example of what the believe is the anti-scientific tendency of "postmodernism".

They cite her analyses of E=mc² as a "sexed equation" (because it privileges the speed of light) and her argument that fluid mechanics has been neglected by "masculine" science that prefers to deal with "masculine" rigid objects rather than "feminine" fluids