Judith Butler: Part 3/6

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• Judith
• Butler
• Gender
• Trouble
• Queer
• Theory

[beateeolb]

It's a conventional and and boring documentary in cinematic terms, but Butler is very interesting both in person and subject. Butler rules!

[steviethomashanley]

Wow, she is such a bad ass

[Afewdollarsmore1]

I think it is a search for herself because she is trying to make sense of why she is a man trapped in a womans body. That is just the way it is im afraid, feel lucky you were not born with a more serious problem and you should embrace being a woman because that is what you are no matter how much of you does not feel that way. That is a test of your faith and you should overcome your desire to sleep with other woman because your ideal partner is a male and that im afraid is the reality of it.

[voluptamors]

Balls. My french is not nearly good enough to understand fluid spoken french.

[FuguGoulash]

@cpthen007 I understood your Spanish without Google Translate, and that's not what I meant at all. I mainly made that comment because I was once looking for a theoretical book or article on how categories of "outcasts" in general are constructed and could not find one. The closest I could find was academic books about queer theory and racism. I did not say one form of oppression was more important than another or that queer theory does not interest me.

[cpthen007]

@FuguGoulash Quién se "detiene" allí? Acaso prefieres que todos hablemos de lo mismo: la categoría de clase? Por gente como tu existe gente como Butler. Estamos cansados de que se minimicen los esfuerzos teóricos de otros que necesitan libertad, en nombre de "las otras opresiones más importantes". Ocúpate de quienes nos oprimen, no de quienes denuncian las opresiones que a ti no te interesan. -PS. Go to Google Translate if you need it, or you rather "stop" here??

[WhiteAbenaki]

@FuguGoulash Does she "stop at gender"? That's just the frontier of critique she is celebrated for breaking into. But you're right about other predefined categories.

[FuguGoulash]

Why stop at gender? Society tries to place people into lots of other predefined categories that they might not exactly match with.

[pinguflap]

She's great. highly intellectual, sensitive, so diverse in thinking and character.

[fietsvriend]

I know a lot of women who cried  about having lost their boobs because of eating the macrobiotic way.They didn't like it at all! When you eat strictly macrobiotic, there's a chance of losing your "normal" female tits' size...

[belavedra]

The gallery talks are important, because she says, among many other things, that she was hurt by accusations that she looked very masculine, that she "disincarnated women", that she was a "woman without womb". This makes me feel for her, as, despite her mannerisms, look, ideas and random search for identity, she seems very beautiful and feminine to me, with regard to her warmth and sensistivity and frailty...