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Subject:      George Will on SOCIAL TEXT
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By George F. Will.
From the May 30th Washington Post,
in the article "Smitten With Gibberish".

     Everything, they assert, from science to sexuality, is a "social
construction", and thus arbitrary. The issue of Social Text containing
Sokal's parody includes excruciatingly serious essays that read like
parodies, such as "Gender and Genitals: Constructs of Sex and Gender,"
which reports that "transgender theorists and activists" are refuting
the "Western assumption that there are only two sexes" and are
promoting "increased fluidity" and "a 'rainbow' of gender" purged of
"the binary male/female model." No wonder Social Text's editors nodded
approvingly as Sokal strained to be, as he says, "especially egregious"
in his conclusions concerning "the dialectical emphases" of
"catastrophe
theory" becoming a "concrete tool of progressive political praxis."

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