Performative is exactly the word.

You think that’s bad, imagine being in a classroom taught by ths guy. He literally once passed around a green military jacket he wore all the time on which he had replaced the original plastic buttons with big round wooden ones. He wanted us to understand his appreciation for fine detail & sensory stimulus. So we kind…

Who in their right mind doesn’t like Soupy Sales?

Interesting considering male-orangutang-on-human-female rape has been documented by primatologists.

He’s good tho. I saw him perform the role this winter. It’s legit.

Well, it’s not so much as the integrity of the device so much as it is about the integrity of the author.

Fine, but don’t assume the posture of the confessional essay if you’re not going to follow through with it. This isn’t a stylistic quirk, it’s a dishonest and manipulative use of a literary device.

Ah, it’s a real term.

This article’s author is criticizing the stylized obfuscation that male writers do when writing confessional essays. The article you linked might be frivolous, but it doesn’t feature any of the characteristics cited above.

No, confessional writing done by women tends to be more direct and honest. It has its own tiresome cliches (inflation of the banal, sentimental, purple language), but it’s a different kind of bad/boring. This article is correct in its assessment.

Uh, or it was just a person who cared about her telling her what she deep down already knew. Not everything has to be so problematic. Sometimes people just care about each other’s wellbeing.

The SAT was designed to be an objective, unteachable test—one that would fundamentally reflect the breadth and depth of information that a given student had retained.

I am beginning to come around to this view myself, much to the bafflement (and occasional rage) of my progressive fellows. Interesting to see such black and white thinking from the political left. We should be smarter than that.

Sorry, I should have been more careful with my words. I think if you were to ask those people they would tell you that their gender fluidity is itself an immutable characteristic.

As someone else already mentioned, this broadening of the definition easily opens itself up to targeted abuse—transforming it from a method of protecting minorities into an instrument used to oppress them.

Among other things it erodes the definition of “protected class.” Members of protected classes typically share some immutable characteristic: race, gender, or sexual orientation; not something so temporary and subject to change as one’s profession. Consider the logical conclusions.

Be nice to me.

As Ta-Nahisi Coates said: race is the child of racism, not the other way around.

When you create and uphold the conditions for two desperately unequal societies, everyone suffers. Some become victims, others perpetrators.

This sort of unsavoriness happened in my MFA program to a degree. However I do believe that the women the (very popular, very polarizing) author slept with were also given publishing deals and blurbs from the man himself.