uggghhh i think i am going to have to quote Copious Queer Theory in my response to this response to my review of this fanfiction

hey so i see you wrote about queer grief? well, here's what judith butler says on the subject:

will i get praised or cancelled for my extensive knowledge of queer theoretical approaches to grief and mourning, episode 117/????

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@aescling unnecessarily hostile and antagonistic about any invocation of it

@aescling typically with little-to-no understanding of what the purpose of it actually is

@Lady tbh idk that i have a good answer to what the purpose of theory is (this is not a dig on theory)

anyway. that is unfortunate

@aescling i would say that the purpose of (critical) theory is to build a (critical) framework for analysing things (that one can do criticism to)

@Lady sorry if there’s just an obvious answer here but what exactly do you mean by critical?

@aescling “attempting to uncover the meanings embedded in a text” is i think the conventional definition

@aescling for a potentially quite loose definition of “meaning”, “embedded in”, and “text”

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