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Why would anyone write like this?

From a book I’m looking through on a feminist understanding of the church:

. . . my own discourse seeks to demystify the cultural, dualistic, heterosexist, and essentialist as ideological obfuscations of the multiplicative structures of patriarchal domination.

Talk about obfuscations!

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6 Comments by Patrick George McCullough  /  June 22, 2007  /  Posted in: writing
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  • Josh McManaway

    A prime example of saying a lot without saying anything at all. Yay scholarship!

  • Angela Roskop Erisman

    How about:

    I try to debunk the idea that men dominate the world by showing you that the means they use to try are a bunch of hooey?

    Now, see… isn’t that so much clearer?

    : )

  • Patrick George McCullough

    Looks like you hit the nail on the head, Angela!

  • Jemila Monroe

    Probably the author worked her/his butt off on a phD and needed to flex that dictionary muscle to prove that that it was all worthwhile for the ability to write sentences that obfuscate the possibility of understanding what the author is trying to say ;)

  • Patrick George McCullough

    Well, this person has had their doctorate for several decades. So, I guess it is a habit they couldn’t quit.

  • Jemila Monroe

    Right.