The Role of Normality in Queer Theory

Chidi was trying to answer about the operation of power, that common sense understandings of bourgeois normativity can't answer. He had a pretty rigorous analysis of how normativity is a free-floating punt if you're being really materialist on who's creating the situation in which something gets even to be normative or considered normative in the first place. By punting that question, you can lose track of different aspects of a class struggle and how that struggle looks different in different times and places. The language of homo-normativity comes back in and tries to rescue the analytic utility of the concept of the normative by saying, well, it's not so simple as saying there's the