‘Radical Gender Theory’ is Itself a Social Construct
The people who’re making it up do not have good intentions
You may have heard that Chris Rufo is distributing an anti-trans pamphlet. Several days ago, a major newspaper published a column by another writer who suggested there is something meaningful or worthwhile to be found within it. There isn’t. Here is what’s wrong with this pamphlet.
Rufo Did It Before With the Term ‘Critical Race Theory’
In March 2021, Chris Rufo tweeted that he wanted people to “immediately think ‘critical race theory’” every time they “read something crazy in the newspaper.” As he put it, his efforts were “steadily driving up negative perceptions” of the term “CRT.” “We will eventually turn it toxic,” he bragged, by prompting the right-wing to associate “various cultural insanities under that brand category.” In case anyone missed the point, he went on: “We have decodified the term” (i.e., stripped it of its original meaning) “and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans” (i.e., attach new meanings of everything people hate).
