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I've a phd in sociology /queer theory. Thankfully I'm over that shit now, but I thought I'd make a thread called "I read Butler so you don't have to."
Then I opened my old books to do it and realised, omg, it is even worse than I remember and i don't have the strength.
Then I opened my old books to do it and realised, omg, it is even worse than I remember and i don't have the strength.
Seriously, if you have to get past this many words to get to what should be a fairly easily summarised few points, you have serious issues with style.
The highlighting is from way back when, but it's also a really good example of a terribly constructed sentence.
The highlighting is from way back when, but it's also a really good example of a terribly constructed sentence.
I used to think that this argument applied to biological sex, and therefore men were women, face palm.
I would type this out but my brain is rebelling.
No, no Judith, bodies are not purely discursive.
Sara Salih summarising Butler here, so the style is a bit more accessible, but all this can be true and biological sex still be real.
I really don't know how i bought this, like what the hell?
I really don't know how i bought this, like what the hell?
Meg Barker comes close to understanding that gender is conformist bullshit in "rewriting the rules," but bails at the last moment, she spends ages taking about how stereotypes are bad, but then the second she quotes Butler, she goes wrong.
I've been trying to find this one, "problematising" how human reproductive processes are described in biology text books. I'm just gonna leave this here. Emily Martin, the sperm and the egg, and the biological reality of sex.
