I have been thinking a lot about polemics and what that mode of argument is useful for and what is isn't as useful for. Queer theory is a branch of thought that makes particularly frequent use of the polemic in part bc it tried to sketch out a theory of "anti-normativity"

thus a queer stance is often intentionally ironic, or exceeds a realistic ending. Where I think polemic starts to fail is when it doesn't offer a vision. When it becomes instead a relentlessly negative positioning of the self as separate from the "norm"