Postmodernism is excellent for de-constructing and critiquing dominant power relationships and socially constructed inst.s and systems, but it went too far and too deep to the point of collapsing the ground beneath. It’s one thing to see hierarchy operative everywhere, and another to dismiss basic truths, objective criteria, and all certainties. This is the philosophical thought that Queer used to push its extremely relativistic and individualistic sexual views in the academy and out. Subjects (male) were to have full sexual license to enact any sexual expression on demand. And this included the right to sexual identities, the promotion of performative sex, and an expanding list transgressive sex acts centered around sado-masochism. And of course, LGBTQ made it an effective delivery system. It was almost entirely male in membership and its mainstream acceptance was never greater. So, Queer took hold and its first hook-up act was with transgender...