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Modern theory takes this idea of Saussure and extends it by coupling it with the idea that because we can only know the world through language then and language does not reflect the world but constructs it
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This is a rather ridiculous equivalence, in my mind. Language does not precede the world, nor makes it, it defines it's multiple differentiations in function. A chair, like it or not, no matter WHAT language you use, can be sat on comfortably while a 10 foot tall spike on which you've been thrown from 50 onto feet cannot.
The rest says that feminism does not promote selflessness- no shit? It promotes worth of the self, something buddhism's serenity and disguised nihilism does not offer disadvantaged females.