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Why is Foucault commonly ridiculed/mocked?

I’m just getting into philosophy and focused more on the existentialists (as most seem to do when they first jump in), but i read Herculine Barbin this year without knowing who Foucault really was and thoroughly enjoyed it. I chatted with a friend about some of Foucault’s ideologies and she said he’s known for his book on prisons. I’m not the best at reading due to ADD/lack of interest as a teen, but i have discovered a love for it lately and am trying to get better to decipher certain tones, themes, prose, etc. So i could be incredibly off here by my assumption and simply misunderstood. 

I don’t necessarily know how to word this next part, but i commonly see he’s dogged on the internet a lot (mainly talking about what i see on twitter, but i also know historians seemingly don’t care for him?) I still plan on reading Discipline and Punishment soon regardless, but is he just.. a bad writer who pissed a lot of people off and i can’t see it yet?
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Some people claim that whatever merit his actual theories have, he was a very bad historian who always found ways to make the facts fit his narrative.  That's a general problem with doing genealogy though.  Nietzsche is criticized for the same thing.