“Critical Gender Theory” Comix (a collection of memes)

This is a collection of memes created for the Unknown History of Misandry that use Comix. Below the memes you will find a discussion of the term “critical gender theory.”

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What is “critical gender theory?” It is the dominant philosophy of feminism; the one that is used (in the US) by the American Bar Association to shape laws, by government agencies, and by private foundations and universities to shape policy and protocols (in order to engage in social engineering). It derives from “critical theory” a philosophical position shaped by Frankfurt School philosophers. Adherents of the “critical theory” philosophy often refer to their belief system simply (and quite cryptically)  as “theory,” as in “I’m studying theory.”

Some of these philosophers, such as Frederick Jameson, use the term “Cultural Marxism” to describe a more general political approach that includes both Frankfurt School Marxism and other “post-structuralist” and “post-modernist” ideas and philosophies.

Critics of the top-down agendas of institutions that have shaped themselves after the “critical gender theory” formula sometimes call the agenda and its results “feminist governance.”

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Here is a an example of the use of the term “critical gender theory” in its professional (philosophical) context:

“So it is that deconstruction and critical gender theory both seek to unveil capitalism’s ‘other’ and disrupt the ‘ontological totality’ which Marx proffers.”

[Chris Lloyd, “Heirs of Marx, Critical Legal Thinking,” Oct. 24, 2011; a discussion of the 1996 book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy by of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham]

http://criticallegalthinking.com/2011/10/24/heirs-of-marx/

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The term “critical theory” has become so dominant in academe that it has been allowed to, in essence “colonize” language and usage in some cases.  Notable example is “critical thinking,” a non-political term describing “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.”

Yet more and more we see the term “critical thinking” used in a radically different sense, one that denotes adherence to a particular a priori political stance. The trend apparently flows from another “critical” term, Critical Literacy ( a term “usually traced to Paolo Freire, the Brazilian lawyer turned educator”).

Today “critical thinking” is often a term used to denote a specifically political approach to pedagogy that is based on Friere-type politicized “critical literacy.”

[Charles Temple, Ph.D, “Critical Thinking and Critical Literacy,” Critical Thinking International, undated]

http://www.criticalthinkinginternational.org/further-reading?id=22

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Another instance of the “critical” term as applied to political ideology labelled in such a way that the terms resembles the objective, rational approach of authentic critical thinking is the term “critical pedagogy.”

Example:

“The idea of Critical Pedagogy begins with the neo-Marxian literature on Critical Theory (Stanley 1992). The early Critical Theorists (most of whom were associated with the Frankfurt School) believed that Marxism had underemphasized the importance of cultural and media influences for the persistence of capitalism; that maintaining conditions of ideological hegemony were important for (in fact inseparable from) the legitimacy and smooth working of capitalist economic relations.

[Nicholas C. Burbules and Rupert Berk, Department of Educational Policy Studies, “Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits,” published in Critical Theories in Education, Thomas S. Popkewitz and Lynn Fendler, eds. (NY: Routledge, 1999).]

http://faculty.education.illinois.edu/burbules/papers/critical.html

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