And the thing is, the French maids in those cafes are in fishnets, dresses that obviously emphasize their bust (hence bumping up their cup sizes by 2 letters), and just know how to bend to your liking. Of course, the cafe owners said this was nothing immoral, and many otaku guys (Japanophiles) love going there to “unwind” or “relax”.

First off, don’t get picky with my words like that. It’s quite rude, especially considering I’m trying to sympathize here, but I guess that’s not good enough for you.

Regardless, I don’t consider your answer to my question reliable, especially considering that I am, in fact, a woman (I can understand why you might have thought that I was a man, although you would’ve known that had you read my blog). Either way, I want a hard answer, not just something personal. In other words, I don’t consider you saying that “you and friends in the industry” as a solid answer. You can’t prove it to me that way.

You can’t come on to a sociological blog and bitch about deconstructionism and well established sociological theory. That is what you will see. Brady is correct. Sometimes it is hard to understand, and sometimes it is pretentious, and sometimes it is perfectly valid and you just don’t understand it. If you have problems with specific vocabularies, don’t go into business, banking, medicine, or any academic field. I can’t imagine how a historian came to disdain critical analysis.

Maybe when you were training to be a historian they trained you to list facts and not think about them. But now historians have to do quite a bit of critical thinking. And sometimes they even use theory and hard to understand words.

And yes, Katrina, there are people everywhere of every ethnicity that disdain critical thinking. Sometimes the most oppressed are the most ardent supporters of the status quo. But in Larry’s case, I think they are right.

I mean, the women playing seem pretty in shape, but not in a way that would be optimal for American football. Plus, instead of having a barred face mask, they are wearing helmets with plastic protection so that the (male) audience can see their faces better. And the lingerie don’t offer much protection from those cleats!

(Then again, I could be wrong about that. Derrida makes Bourdieu look like Seuss.)

It is one of my biggest theory pet peeves.

Translation: I rest on privilege to make excuses for my lack of empathy for non66-year-old-white-males.