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Gender Realism

“ The Society we know, our own culture, is based upon the exchange of women,” - Luce Irigaray          Crises have lost their novelty. Rising political unrest, looming disasters, and the culture wars are the background noise of modern life. Flame wars and discourse endlessly recycle the same handful of topics; debating the successes and failures of this or that struggle against oppression. Today's flavor of discourse is transgender rights. Tomorrow's is discourse will be about problematic Maoists, last week we covered queer assimilation and the week before that was hammering out a definition of "lesbian" which is already lost to the sands of time. Feminist theory, queer theory, and anti-capitalist strategy blend together. While each of these topics is often segregated into its own school of discourse, it has long-since been clear that capitalism and patriarchy are inextricably linked, and the ideological mechanisms of capitalist realism and heterosexual i