Paracelsus posted:

Ah, an appeal to consequences, and one that presumes that if you don't criticize something using a particular method then you've foreclosed any possibility of criticizing it using other methods.

Coincidentally, one of my main beefs with critical theory is that its practitioners often evaluate arguments not by whether those arguments are internally consistent or based on even semi-reliable observation, but instead by the extent to which the arguments, if accepted, would justify overthrowing the current system and putting the speaker or someone who agrees with them in charge. Overthrowing a bad system isn't the end of things, and can easily lead to worse outcomes (especially if it's done so under pretenses that were mostly geared to the acquisition of power).

To tie things back into the works of Urobochi for a second, in Psycho-Pass the protagonist declines to publicize the information that would completely undermine the SYBIL system, because she realizes that there isn't a viable follow-up that wouldn't end in disorder and mass starvation. And in that case the autocrat even has a distinct tendency to be portrayed as female. Evaluated in that light, I'm skeptical of the idea that Urobochi considers patriarchy to be the unique source of stifling oppression in the world such that it must be overthrown at all costs and replaced with a more female-centric system. And before you bring up death of the author, RH was willing to look at other statements by Urobochi (although didn't find them), so evidently there's still a bit of life in the author yet.

The other problem I have with this sort of analysis is the "men are like this, but women are like THIS, provided that THIS is always better than the male version" thread that runs through them. If you're claiming that there are capabilities and behaviors that are uniquely female, then it would seem to follow that there could also be capabilities and behaviors that are uniquely male, and at that point the whole notion of workplace equality comes crashing down.