Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.  “Feminism and Deconstruction, Again:  Negotiating With Unacknowledged Masculinism.”  In Teresa Brennan, ed., Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis.  Routledge, 1989.  (Via fucktheory)

I love Spivak, don’t get me wrong. But this quote is like saying, “If one looks at observational meteorology (rather than simply reading the weather report), then one is obliged to notice that meteorology has always been about whether I have to bring an umbrella with me.” It’s like, duh.