#Applying it to Women who like men in high brow literature??? As if that comparison is somehow the same??? Is very strange???
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I'm not offended or anything but there's something very odd about taking Andrea Long Chu's Quote "The problem with the transsexual is that she’s always been too much of a woman. It’s hard to make something as politically dowdy as a woman into a cover girl for that trendy new metaphysics you’re hawking", cutting out the sentence with transsexual, and following it up "a woman who desires men is dowdy times two", as if straight women have never in the world been cover girls for metaphysics???
#I mean it's a great ALC quote but It has a meaning and context! It's about transsexual women in Queer Theory!#Applying it to Women who like men in high brow literature??? As if that comparison is somehow the same??? Is very strange???#grad school life#the transgender complaint#It does help to confirm my belief that no one actually reads ALC and just brigade her for quotes for whatever point they have#But I do think if you figured out what her point was you might not have used the transsexual lesbian's quote for your article on how ...#we need to respect and recognize (cis) women's “love of cock���... as if this isn't somehow the most common position for a woman to be!!!!#(Yes I do understand the point in the abstract that gay male love of men is seen as something real in a way straight women isn't but...#IN CONTEXT!#Queer theory quite literally was built off of saying lesbianism was too dowdy and bisexuality was superior! I mean#Just the exact opposite point!)
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