She assumes that criticisms of Social Justice scholarship are simply attempts to deliberately ignore The Truth According to Social Justice. Furthermore, criticism of Social Justice work is immoral and harmful, Bailey tells us: I focus on these ground-holding responses because they are pervasive, tenacious, and bear a strong resemblance to critical-

in the postmodern view, “The individual status and position of those we group together and call ‘women’ and of those we call ‘men’ are argued to vary so greatly over time, space and culture that there is little justification for the use of these collective nouns.”

Take the concept of “gendering” as an oppressive action. It’s not usually something powerful individuals do knowingly. Instead, it is created by social interactions on all levels, interactions that become ever more complex as further layers of identity are added to the analytical mix. In their massively influential 1987 paper, “Doing Gender”26—the

The War on Women strategy has the advantages of uniting progressive women in a common cause and of raising money from women. But it also has disadvantages. First, it frames women as victims under attack. Second, it posits that conservatives are involved in a conscious movement to attack women, which is hard to sell except to liberals and which is p