how and why did Queer Theory become the defacto paradigm...

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Thanks for the reply. Do you have more info on the "end of history" idea (an author or a body of text)? Is it something that came out of postmodernism? Underlying this current libfem movement, I've felt that those who would benefit most were those who had the privilege of "options". Like, in a feminist context it would be the middle upper/upper class women, or with LGBT it would bisexuals/pansexuals. I never understood why it was called "Queer" Theory if it fundamentally argued that sexuality is a choice to be deconstructed and examined.

I appreciate your thoughts on transhumanism, it's something that's cropped up on my radar as well. As a teen I was very into cyberpunk in an aesthetic and "rage against the machine" type of way, but now it just seems very sinister to me. There is a dark irony in the fact that the people who now heavily tread that transhumanism line are the type who would be the cyberpunk villains of yesteryear.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man

I don't think Francis Fukuyama who coined this would be considered a post-modernist but many of the postmodernists believed similar things about how all ideologies were discredited (even though I imagine they would view Fukuyama's ideas as a grand narrative themselves). Yeah, I agree with you about this ideology really benefiting privileged people with options at the expense of others. It seems to be a lot of more working-class women who are rejecting trans ideology (not exclusively but largely from what I've seen) That is another reason I think it is associated with neoliberalism.

but now it just seems very sinister to me. There is a dark irony in the fact that the people who now heavily tread that transhumanism line are the type who would be the cyberpunk villains of yesteryear.

Yes. :)