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Just ignore the content. All these words are why many normal folks think academic liberals are airheads. I know what she's saying because I got used to this style of super dense academic writing. But how are regular folk supposed to make heads or tails of this?
To be fair, though, I'm not sure why media generally insists on presenting academic viewpoints like this. It's the social science version of talking about the mathematics of fusion reactors:
Presenting unintelligible nonsense (from the layman's perspective) helps nobody. But then, Fox News does what media also generally does and dumbs the critique of marriage down into an absurdity to attack an easy strawman.
Because they are fundamentally social topics that impact your average Joe. To just let a bunch of quacks leverage institutions to push their crap is how we let things go worse.