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* The frequent use of irony and humorous wordplay to shift the meanings of words is encouraged as this causes people to rethink their assumptions about culture and language. This often takes the form of ridicule of anything deemed to be part of [[traditional values]] or mainstream [[American]] culture. American culture of the 1950s is especially ridiculed in this way with such epithets as "white bread". Postmodernism promotes a "hipster" culture in which motifs from pre-1970s America are used in such a way as to ridicule them.
* The frequent use of irony and humorous wordplay to shift the meanings of words is encouraged as this causes people to rethink their assumptions about culture and language. This often takes the form of ridicule of anything deemed to be part of [[traditional values]] or mainstream [[American]] culture. American culture of the 1950s is especially ridiculed in this way with such epithets as "white bread". Postmodernism promotes a "hipster" culture in which motifs from pre-1970s America are used in such a way as to ridicule them.
* Gender and so-called [[gender role]]s are socially constructed, not inborn traits
* Gender and so-called [[gender role]]s are socially constructed, not inborn traits
Alan Sokal famously exposed postmodernism as deeply flawed in 1996 by successfully publishing nonsense in a postmodern journal.[http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html]. Since then, postmodernism has largely been considered a laughingstock among all but the most liberal academics.