It’s hard to find something these days which can’t be fitted into some grand, even exotic, theory. What we thought of as weather is now part of the theory of climate change. Without claiming any expertise, so pardon any imprecision, I understand that gender and queer theory is a dialectical endeavour to fit a multitude of rare sidestream human conditions into an historical perspective. Could be wrong. Feminist theory, I guess, celebrates the emergence of women from the shackles of toxic masculinity. Critical race theory appears mainly to consist of asserting that white privilege keeps people of colour from reaching…