On That **bleep** Paper Causes Global Warming Hoax
“The conceptual **bleep** as a social construct” is a peer-reviewed paper by two fellows who used fake names, published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences.
The real authors were Peter Boghossian, an academic philosopher, and James A. Lindsay, a writer. They revealed the article to be a hoax in, of all places, Skeptic magazine.
It’s sufficient to quote just one paragraph from the hoax, which was in part produced using the Postmodern Generator.
We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations. The conceptual **bleep** presents significant problems for gender identity and reproductive identity within social and family dynamics, is exclusionary to disenfranchised communities based upon gender or reproductive identity, is an enduring source of abuse for women and other gender-marginalized groups and individuals, is the universal performative source of rape, and is the conceptual driver behind much of climate change.
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http://wmbriggs.com/post/21733/
The language used in the hoax paper would make Jacques Derrida proud.
