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  • They have in their foucauldian methods, their deconstructionism, their balkanization of universities, their perpetual protests and complaints reflecting merely the adolescent "who has discovered with bitterness that being born privileged does not alter the conditions and limitations of human existence," these university professors have now set a pattern for women like this, to destroy for others what they themselves have benefited from.

    The accuser in the Duke rape case is publishing a memoir. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Everyone learns to see through foucauldian lenses and suddenly everything you look at -everything- has a racist tint, or misogynist tint, or anti-whatever tint, according to the wavelength chosen.

    "An image right there... of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and ... the Washington Monument.... You tell me why those 2 phallic symbols are placed there..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • 4: 09 AM i think i read that in a book just no now Cuchlann: Oxford English Dictionary. lelangir: ohh Ghostlightning: one can discourse with the subject! lelangir: discourse in the foucauldian sense Cuchlann: Okay, hold on.

    Anime Nano! 2009

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