6 Quotes by Helen Pluckrose

[A] society that is free to worry about seemingly minor social faux pas or unwanted ideas and attitudes is one in which most of its members are probably not experiencing any directly life-threatening circumstances.

Gender studies' own Theoretical frameworks currently hinder it from producing scholarship of value to the cause of social justice. This is the price it pays for its "increasing sophistication.

Therefore, everything the marginalized individual interprets as racism is considered racism by default—an episteme that encourages confirmation bias and leaves wide open the door to the unscrupulous.

One casualty of this "increasingly sophisticated" intersectional model, which focuses primarily on the power of discourses, is the neglect of the most materially relevant variable in many of the problems faced by women (and by many racial and sexual minorities): economic class.

This isn't merely insane, nor is it just fetishism of the underdog. It's applied postmodernism.

As an applied postmodern Theory, postcolonial Theory is of considerable real-world concern and poses threats to society that the original postmodernism did not. The drives to decolonize everything from hair to English literature curricula, to tear down paintings and smash statues, and to erase history while opening up revisionist discussions of it, are particularly alarming.