Opinion of Queer Theory

[Associate Justice PiT]

My sentiments are increasingly negative, and I wish that it were easier to discuss these things without critical thoughts or skepticism being interpreted as an attack on someone's human dignity. (Sort of a broad topic for a poll, though, isn't it?)

     It's a convenient defense mechanism for the ideology; criticisms of it can be dismissed as bigoted and ignorant attacks on the people placed under its aegis. As someone who values discourse, I have an instinctively negative reaction to any ideology where a response of this kind is proffered as an actual argument:

Of course a group of straight white privileged cis-men would hate it.

[Associate Justice PiT]

My sentiments are increasingly negative, and I wish that it were easier to discuss these things without critical thoughts or skepticism being interpreted as an attack on someone's human dignity. (Sort of a broad topic for a poll, though, isn't it?)

     It's a convenient defense mechanism for the ideology; criticisms of it can be dismissed as bigoted and ignorant attacks on the people placed under its aegis. As someone who values discourse, I have an instinctively negative reaction to any ideology where a response of this kind is proffered as an actual argument:

Of course a group of straight white privileged cis-men would hate it.

Being Snarky is not attempting to make an argument.

     True, but I have also seen people make the argument in all seriousness. I used your example mainly because it was there at hand.