There was that uncomfortable episode a few years back where they decided to support an academic who'd been accused of stalking and sexually harassing a grad student then had to walk it back a few months later and apologise.
Haha I remember Zizek talking about this, saying how the student was emotionally manipulative and was really the one to blame.There was that uncomfortable episode a few years back where they decided to back an academic who'd been accused of stalking and sexually harassing a grad student then had to walk it back a few months later and apologise.
Haha I remember Zizek talking about this, saying how the student was emotionally manipulative and was really the one to blame.
although when I see a snippet of an Andrew Tate video I truly understand that gender is performative, he is totally acting out his idea of what a "male" is, and Judith is 100% correct ( admittedly this is probably not the example she intended to provide proof of her correctness )
You read that recent article on him and the effect he was having on teenage boys and their parents?
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I can bellieve it, but the article also read like the author had made a lot of it up and attributed it to fictional people they'd "interviewed". This reads like someone taking the piss,
As Tate was blowing up, Ruby made the connection and grew concerned — even more so when Charlie told her that Tate was being interviewed on Tucker Carlson and suggested they watch together. She and her husband said “no.” “I’m like a Brooklyn, far-left person. If Tucker Carlson interviewed Barack Obama, who’s probably my favorite person on earth, I wouldn’t watch that,” she says.
edit; I've seen a few youtube videos recently about youtube "influencers" who have been "red pilled" and fallen under the spell of the rapist* Tate ( i.e, Aiden Ross, Sneako )
She won the the world's worst writing award once for this sentence:
First prize
"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."
Ah yes, the noted socialist firebrand Barack Obama, beloved of 'far-left people' everywhere.You read that recent article on him and the effect he was having on teenage boys and their parents?
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I can believe it, but it also reads like the author may have made some of it up and attributed it to fictional people. This feels like someone taking the piss,
As Tate was blowing up, Ruby made the connection and grew concerned — even more so when Charlie told her that Tate was being interviewed on Tucker Carlson and suggested they watch together. She and her husband said “no.” “I’m like a Brooklyn, far-left person. If Tucker Carlson interviewed Barack Obama, who’s probably my favorite person on earth, I wouldn’t watch that,” she says.
I can't take credit for this, someone else on this forum must have mentioned the irony of some idiot like Tate pontificating on "Red pill" ideology and "The Matrix" which was actually the creation of the Wachowskis ( gender trouble in full effect? )
Perhaps @malelesbian can 'unpack' that for us? 🤣
Right now, my project consists in my opposition to guys like Andrew Tate!
... in Butler lurks the true antidote to Andrew Tate: a movement as far in the opposite direction as possible, men embracing femininity. I believe Butler says in an interview that heterosexual men can use androgyny to mitigate their own toxic masculinity, but I can't find the source.