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why does everyone obsess about some small mistake, desperate to point it out?

the points here are potent.

quibbling makes the quibbler seem impotent and unable to not succumb to the very thing Gina is calling out: diminish a woman's good work/thinking/analysis/creativity.

sadly.

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Brilliant, lovely, spot on.

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Did you mean to say "wasn't" instead of was in this sentence? "His fear was that the consciousness was a false one, and he was far from wrong."

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I don't think so. "False consciousness" is a Marxist concept from "Capital." It refers to the way that capitalist structures serve to conceal their real effects - exploitation -- from consumers. 'His fear that the consciousness was a false one' was a play on words. This book began as my PhD dissertation so of course it's filled with academic jargon like that, sorry!

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Spellcheck is your friend.

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