Fitz Files Fail

Deconstruction can be slippery to define but it briefly means that Fitz writes about Mrs Court but she doesn't mean what we think she means in promoting heterosexuality. You went searching for other meanings as a deconstructionist as 'other meanings are always there'. That's not the way I read The Sydney Morning Herald or Manning Clark's, The History of Australia.

Reader-response is a postmodern, deconstructionist approach to reading literature where meaning does not reside in the text. 'Words in a text evoke images in readers' minds and readers bring their experiences to this encounter. Because individuals have different life experiences, it is almost certain that no two readers or reading sessions will form the exact same interpretation of a text'.

You deconstructed Margaret's meaning and imposed your interpretation as a reader on what she wrote.

Let me try this with your article:

At Tennis Australia (TA) we have no religious views whatsoever, and welcome everyone. That's what TA would like to say but we have a commitment to equality that excludes fundamentalist Christians, as your statements demonstrate. Intense feelings arise in TA members towards you, Margaret Court. You have brought disrepute on TA with your bigotry towards the LGBTI+ community.

Fitz, would you approve of my promoting that view, based on your article? Of course not, but that's what you've done with putting words into Margaret Court's mouth about the LGBTI+ community not being equal with the straights and the way she 'trashed the gays'. This is Fitz deconstructing Mrs Court with his reader-response interpretation.

Wake up, Fitz. You don't know the Scriptures you prepared to promote PC, fake, reader-response news to disparage Margaret Court's statements. Based on how you have ruined the reputation by fake news of Margaret Court, I can't read your articles with confidence that you tell the truth.

I call upon you to promote the accurate meaning of homophobic. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as 'involving a fear or dislike of gay people' (2019. s.v. homophobic).

Margaret Court, based on her own statements, does not fear or dislike gay people. She loves them and has them in her church, Victory Life Centre, Perth – so is not homophobic.