0014 So far, in looking at chapter four of Saad’s book and using gender as the example, I re-articulate some of the author’s claims using the category-based nested form.

Postmodern illiberal movements situate orthodox views about men and women_2a with the concept that gender is a personal choice_2b.

0015 Plus, postmodern illiberal movements_3b exclude both traditional formulations_3b and the disciplinary language of cognitive psychology_3b.

On what theoretical grounds do they exclude?

0016 Well, if they have no theoretical grounds, then they would be intellectual terrorists.

But, if they do, then what would put the normal context of social construction_3b into perspective_3c?

Well, the perspective must be a postmodern illumination_3c, because the situation-level normal context_3b displaces both science and reason.  The situation tells me that gender is a personal choice_2b.  An third-level actuality_2c must put that personal choice_2b into perspective.  If the world_2c is “naively innocent”, then that perspective empowers the situation-level actuality_2b.  If the world_2c is “treacherously corrupt”, then that perspective explains why the situation-level actuality_2b may never be realized (without the assistance of a benevolent being with sovereign power).

0017 Here is a picture of the dark side of the postmodern illumination_3c.

0018 The slogan of “toxic masculinity”_2c enters the picture as emerging from (and situating) the potential that contextualizes the situation level_1c.  Men are oppressors.  Women are oppessed.  And, that is all there is to it.  The actuality_2c emanating from the potential of ‘the patriarchy’_1c is an illumination of darkness_3c, in the Manichaean sense of the term, “darkness”.

Of course, this perspective is counter-intutitive in the sense that is incomplete.  The problem?  The other half of the illumination goes unspoken.  An illumination_3c of light, as opposed to darkness, remains unspoken.

0019 Here is a picture of the naively innocent side of the postmodern illumination_3c.

0020 Naive and innocent sovereign acts and decrees have the potential_1c of mitigating the dominating and inflexible patriarchy_1c.   Of course, this requires sovereign power_1c.

0021 What happens when ‘sovereign acts and decrees’_1c counters ‘the patriarchy’_1c?

Men are humbled_2c and women are liberated_2c in the normal context of the light-filled normal context of postmodern illumination_3c.