"Critical Theory" Again: Sexuality

City Journal published an essay showing how sex became part of the "critical theory" deception.  Remember:  "Critical Theory"* is, at its core, an attack on Western culture:  Kulturkampf.  When you understand that, you understand what's going on in what passes for 'intellectual' discourse.

Here's the relevant passage from the City Journal essay describing the work of a lesbian activist in the 1970's:

...Rubin’s project—and, by extension, that of queer theory—was to interrogate, deconstruct, and subvert this sexual hierarchy and usher in a world beyond limits, much like the one she had experienced in San Francisco. The key mechanism for achieving this turn was the thesis of social construction. “The new scholarship on sexual behaviour has given sex a history and created a constructivist alternative to” the view that sex is a natural and pre-political phenomenon, Rubin wrote. “Underlying this body of work is an assumption that sexuality is constituted in society and history, not biologically ordained. This does not mean the biological capacities are not prerequisites for human sexuality. It does mean that human sexuality is not comprehensible in purely biological terms.” In other words, traditional conceptions of sex, regarding it as a natural behavior that reflects an unchanging order, are pure mythology, designed to rationalize and justify systems of oppression. For Rubin and later queer theorists, sex and gender were infinitely malleable. There was nothing permanent about human sexuality, which was, after all, “political.” Through a revolution of values, they believed, the sexual hierarchy could be torn down and rebuilt in their image....

The revolt against the 'unchanging order' is a revolt against the truth of humanity, which is in turn, the foundation of Western culture--the culture which is Judaeo-Christian. 

This is the real "existential" battle.

Be prepared.  Pray--and buy more ammo.

*By the way, the inventors of "Critical Theory" (the Frankfurt School) taught at Columbia U briefly.  Hmmmm.  Columbia is home to a "highly-regarded" school of "Journalism" AND a "highly regarded" teachers' college.  Just co-incidence, you see.  Further, Theodor Adorno, a member of that group, was a disciple of Schoenberg, the 12-tone music lunatic; Adorno wrote several pieces of music which are not performed.  For a reason.