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== Criticisms ==
Queer theory has faced criticism from people across the ideological spectrum.
 
Prioritizing the social construction of [[gender]] over innate and biological factors, queer theory is the target of intense criticism.
 
According to Adam Isaiah Green, a professor at the [[University of Toronto]], queer theory denies "social urgency" in certain cases (positions of homosexual subjects) while appropriating this "social urgency" in others (positions of radicalized opponents).<ref name="Green">{{Cite journal|language=English|last1=Green|first1=Adam Isaiah|title=Gay but not queer: Toward a post-queer study of sexuality|journal=Theory and Society|volume=31|number=4|date=2002|doi=10.1023/A:1020976902569|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1020976902569 |access-date=2020-11-07|pages=521–545|s2cid=140739910 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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For some feminists, queer theory undermines [[feminism]] by blurring the boundaries between gendered social classes, which it explains as personal choices rather than consequences of [[social structure]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal |language=French|last1=Masson|first1=Sabine|title=Pour un regard féministe matérialiste sur le queer|journal=Mouvements|date=2002|volume=20 |issue=2 |page=44 |doi=10.3917/mouv.020.0044 |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-mouvements-2002-2-page-44.htm}}</ref>
 
According to [[Bruno Perreau]], queer theory has become a symbol of the excesses of [[gender studies]] in the eyes of its opponents.<ref>{{Cite book|language=English|last1=Perreau|first1=Bruno|title=Queer Theory, The French Response|pages=75–81 |location=Stanford, CA|publisher=[[Stanford University Press]]|date=2016|isbn=978-1-5036-0044-7|url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27481}}</ref>
 
==Queer theory in online discourse==