On 2/22/2022 7:28 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
On 2/22/2022 12:49 AM, film...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 9:24:24 AM UTC-8, Technobarbarian wrote:
John Oliver spends almost half an hour talking about CRT. I thought
it was a pretty good explanation of what's going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U
TB
I wonder when the CGT (Critical Gender Theory) will rear it's angry
head? Women have traditionally been the most screwed over,
oppressed, bunch of people on the planet! Anyone who ever laughed at
the song, "Put Another Log on the Fire", knows all about that!
Witch Hazel Jr.
CGT probably already exists under some other name. CRT is part of Critical Legal Studies. The results of CGT would probably be very
different from CRT. CGT would have to look at how the women end up with
all the money and the many legal advantages women have. For example,
there was recently a brief mummer in Congress about requiring women to register for the military draft. Relatively few people are ready for
anything that radical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies
"Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that
developed in the United States during the 1970s.[1] CLS adherents claim
that laws are devised to maintain the status quo of society and thereby codify its biases against marginalized groups.[2] Despite wide variation
in the opinions of critical legal scholars around the world, there is
general consensus[3] regarding the key goals of Critical Legal Studies:
to demonstrate the ambiguity and possible preferential outcomes of
supposedly impartial and rigid legal doctrines.
to publicize historical, social, economic and psychological results of
legal decisions
to demystify legal analysis and legal culture in order to impose
transparency on legal processes so that they earn the general support of socially responsible citizens"
The women have "come a long way, baby", but both groups have a
long way to go. My wife tells me that most of the working women she
knows are still expected to do the bulk of the cooking and cleaning at
home. I don't think any Critical Legal Theory is going to change that.
TB
I went looking for CGT and got some fun results. Most of this is
not a form of critical legal theory because they're not focused on the
legal aspects.
https://cgs.ucsd.edu/
"WELCOME TO CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES
Critical Gender Studies is an undergraduate program specializing in the
study of gender and sexuality. We came to life as a program in Women’s Studies, but at the urging of faculty and students, reconstituted
ourselves in 1998 by pairing gender studies and sexuality studies in one
course of study. Our students learn to think in creative and productive
ways, gaining analytic strengths and conceptual agility by frequently
crossing the boundaries of established disciplines.
As a small, enthusiastic program, we take pride in our ability to get to
know our students well, and in fostering a lively community of students
and faculty who share a commitment to innovative scholarship and
creative thinking."
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190236953-e-60
"Gender Theory in Philosophy of Race"
"The subject of critical race theory is implicitly black men, and the
main idea is race. The subject of feminism is implicitly white women,
and the main idea is gender. When the main idea is race, gender loses
its importance and when the main idea is gender, race loses its
importance. In both cases, women of color, especially black women, are
left out. Needed is a new critical theory to address the oppression of nonwhite, especially black, women. Critical plunder theory would begin
with the facts of uncompensated appropriation of the biological products
of women of color, such as sexuality and children."
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/gender_studies_and_queer_theory.html
"Gender Studies and Queer Theory (1970s-present)
GENDER(S), POWER, AND MARGINALIZATION
Gender studies and queer theory explore issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations (woman as other) in literature and culture.
Much of the work in gender studies and queer theory, while influenced by feminist criticism, emerges from post-structural interest in fragmented, de-centered knowledge building (Nietzsche, Derrida, Foucault), language
(the breakdown of sign-signifier), and psychoanalysis (Lacan).
A primary concern in gender studies and queer theory is the manner in
which gender and sexuality is discussed: "Effective as this work
[feminism] was in changing what teachers taught and what the students
read, there was a sense on the part of some feminist critics that...it
was still the old game that was being played, when what it needed was a
new game entirely. The argument posed was that in order to counter
patriarchy, it was necessary not merely to think about new texts, but to
think about them in radically new ways" (Richter 1432).
Therefore, a critic working in gender studies and queer theory might
even be uncomfortable with the binary established by many feminist
scholars between masculine and feminine: "Cixous (following Derrida in
Of Grammatology) sets up a series of binary oppositions (active/passive, sun/moon...father/mother, logos/pathos). Each pair can be analyzed as a hierarchy in which the former term represents the positive and masculine
and the latter the negative and feminine principle" (Richter 1433-1434)."
I think we aren't hearing about Critical Gender Theory because
the retrumplicans have other ways of demonizing women and anyone who
isn't 100% heteronormative. Limbaugh's "Feminazis" pretty much sums up
the way they attack women in one word. Our recent wave of book burning
has focused on people who are not heteronormative. So the battle over
CGT started a long time ago. We just give it different names.
Someone has probably already said this, but this is a new rule for
me. So TB's rule: "In a battle of words, words are one of the first
victims."
TB
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