Posted by margo on December 28, 2018, 12:34 am, in reply to "spontaneous things"
it seems to me you are constantly trashing it in subtle ways
I am not in love with it as a theory. I don't think it's a perfect, flawless tool. Thus, I question it... and not subtly. You see me as 'trashing' it, rather than critiquing it. Why? Perhaps you're overly devoted to it as a theory?
I just dont ever remember you saying it was useful before. Ever.
Go back a couple of years to when I first started posting about it here. Like any tool, the methodology can be useful. It depends on who's utilising it. *Who* is using it - why and in which selective way - is more interesting than the theory itself, imo, particularly when it comes to media analysis.
Tortoise will not like this. Margo saying intersectional approaches are 'useful' and 'clever'.
Sounds like you'd like nothing better than another distracting ding-dong on the subject?
Any tool - a knife, a calculator, a measuring spoon - can be useful and clever. It all depends on who is wielding it, how they apply it and what their ultimate intentions are when they take it up. Of course the intentionality tool - formulated from a set of ideas - is less precise and more open to error than tools fashioned from metal. Policing debate -- I dont agree about policing. I think there should be MORE policing of debate. Not less. On this board there is virtually NONE. What i mean is ad-hom attacks should not be tolerated. They are not 'debate'. They kill debate. And poison boards. This board is the ultimate Lord of the Flies Board. Ad Hom attacks are not only allowed here, they are cheered on. Enabled. Encouraged. Heck the Admin here even scolds the ones BEING attacked. And other than Walter, me, and Twirlip, no-one ever speaks out about it. Ah well. So be it. I have no doubt you see it totally differently.
You're quite right. I see things differently. These words of yours - and your appetite for further policing - explain a lot. Given what you say, it has to be asked: why do you hang out here?
Post something about South African Feminism.
I probably won't. Media analysis is what I'm interested in, here, rather than specific "isms".