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Queer Theory Is Queer Marxism

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 16 Thanks to Drag Queen Story Hour, groomer schools, and all other things sex, gender, and sexuality pushed by today's out-of-control Woke Marxist Left, Queer Theory has been pushed front and center in the public consciousness, but what is it? Simply put, Queer Theory is Queer Marxism, which is a Marxist Theory about a form of sociocultural "property" called "normalcy," "normality," or "normativity," that it believes to have been unjustly created and in need of destruction and total abolition. As such, it's incredibly dangerous and destructive, particularly on the formative and impressionable psychologies of children, whom it targets in particular, often directly through our schools and children's entertainment programming. On this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down what Queer Theory is, partly in its own foundational words, and illustrates succinctly why it is a form of Queer Marxism that must be stopped. Join him to learn about this important and timely topic! Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support/ Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay and you are listening to new discourses bullets.

0:14.8

I give you these a short bullet point style summary of a single topic that I think you

0:20.0

need to understand.

0:21.0

I try to keep it tight.

0:22.7

And so we're going to dive right in yet again and talk about queer theory.

0:26.7

What is queer theory?

0:29.1

I'm going to give maybe a little bit of a non-standard presentation as what I tend to do,

0:33.0

but I want you to understand kind of straightforwardly what it is.

0:36.5

Queer theory, I think, should be called queer Marxism.

0:39.1

It is a Marxist theory of the normal, but we'll come back to that.

0:42.8

It is, in fact, a theory that was born out of sex-positive radical feminism combined with

0:51.8

postmodern and poststructural analyses of categories and ideas and meaning in the 1980s going

0:59.4

into the 1990s.

1:00.7

The first paper in queer theory is considered to be Gail Rubens thinking sex from 1984 on

1:06.8

the new discourses podcast side to the three podcast series reading through the entirety

1:10.8

of that paper.

1:11.8

So you can go check that out.

1:13.3

Look her up.

1:14.3

G-A-Y-L-E Ruben, R-U-B-I-N, Gail Ruben.

1:19.0

So you can check that out thinking sex 1984.

1:22.9

The term queer theory got applied to this emerging new feminist discourse or new feminist

1:27.7

analysis, if we want to call it that, in either 91 or 93 by Teresa De Laurentis, I'd have

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