Quote Originally Posted by Jin View Post
It's all about power and marginalization, friends. Race, gender, class, you name it. Few people see the power relations behind stereotypes. Hegemonic discourses of gender and race don't disappear simply by enfranchising those with no political say. It's not all about politics, at least not in the narrow sense of the word. You'd be a fool to dispute that our culture is gendered, just as you'd be a fool to dispute that our culture is racialized. Hegemonic discourses of what a man is, what a woman is, what a white person is and what a black person is constantly exercise power over those which they define by congealing into so called common sense. Power is exercised over whites and men just as it is over blacks and females, but the problem lies in the difference between the hegemonic discourses: blacks and women are painted as subordinates or inferiors when it comes to the broader definition of politics. This is what the discourse of political correctness seeks to counter; it seeks to become the hegemon. Whether it's able to or not is up for grabs. But that also means that it will exercise power over others all the same. It will just remove gender and race from the mix. In theory anyways.

I will now wait for this post to be either ignored or misinterpreted.
You must really like that word or something. Is this your way of making some kind of hegemonic post about some general statement you made that makes no sense in practice?