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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"
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The Origins of Queer Theory
Gayle Rubens was looking for a new politics of sex and sexuality. We're seeing the typical maneuvers of tapping into liberal sensibilities to say, yeah, that's reasonable. And again, you see the twisting of the ratchet in leftist organizations. The reason is to actually move enough of the left so far left that what you end up with,. You have mainstream society, and then you have the left.And if the left gets big enough and loud enough, you can't ignore it anymore. So now we've got a taste of the origin story of queer theory.
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