Speaking of Rape & Deconstruction

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

I wonder if devotees of deconstruction are comfortale "deconstructing" the
"binary" between consent and lack of consent and putting the category of
rape under erasure?  No is supplemented by Yes, and vice versa?  When a
woman says, "what part of No don't you understand?" a deconstructive (or
Freudian) man might say, "well, there is no such thing as a No that is not
always already deconstructed," and proceed to do the same old work of
sexism.

Pop deconstructors often make, without any evidence, a totalizing truth
claim that all "binary" thinking -- true/false, reality/fantasy, etc. -- is
"metaphysical" and therefore oppressive, predicated upon "violent
exclusion," but I wonder if they ever think through the consequence of
their own claim.

Yoshie