*Who’s Afraid of Gender?*

The rhetoric of harm is just that—a rhetoric. It does not really divide the world into victims and perpetrators of harm, either literally or metaphorically. Where is its army, its police? No, a rhetoric only tries to impose its categories on the world, and that—the failure of language to manifest what it names—is what deserves our critical attentio

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“The Humanitarian Principle: Any of the above, but with the condition that the first priority be to cause no hurt.” 25 This is the justification for censoring certain ideas that are believed to cause psychological pain, “epistemic violence,” or the erasure of certain groups of human beings—an argument found throughout Social Justice scholarship and

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“I think any work that celebrates women indiscriminately, solely on the merit of their womanhood, is condescending and a cultural liability.”