Sadly (and I would have said ‘sadly’ no matter who won), Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender won the book-club vote and will be the next book we discuss. Let’s plan to meet in late July? “From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.
Maybe we could make it a drinking game. Every time she uses the words fascist (or fascism), authoritarian, or reactionary, take a drink. With any luck at all, you will pass out.
Anyone who writes in the complicated jargon favored by Butler is suspect. But she's worse than opaque: she is either delusional or lying, and I find her malicious. False prophet.
Unsurprisingly, this is the one of the few of our book club reads that my university library actually has 🙄 Which is good in a way as I dread to think what kind of violence it would do to my Amazon recommendations if I were to purchase it.
Am I a masochist if I’m honestly so excited for this? I’ve actually never read a JB book before- it has the aura of running a tough mudder. The fun is in wading through all that slop. Whoever brings the best example of the most absurd academese wins a prize! 🏆
Gender is dependent on sex but she reverses it. To do this she ignores biology and evolution, because it's clear they are ontologically prior and undermine her position. So she's using Foucauldian power to enforce an episteme that is separate from reality and encouraging others in that. That is a kind of evil I think.
People get a PHD using this writing in their papers as scientific method... I am a left person I think but I just can't get my head around this bullshit...
Maybe we could make it a drinking game. Every time she uses the words fascist (or fascism), authoritarian, or reactionary, take a drink. With any luck at all, you will pass out.
She labels her critics "fascists." She is a bully as well as an intellectual fraud.
Anyone who writes in the complicated jargon favored by Butler is suspect. But she's worse than opaque: she is either delusional or lying, and I find her malicious. False prophet.
Yes, dark mother complex or something...
I’m going to have to try to find this at a library somewhere because I refuse to pay for it! 😅
Unsurprisingly, this is the one of the few of our book club reads that my university library actually has 🙄 Which is good in a way as I dread to think what kind of violence it would do to my Amazon recommendations if I were to purchase it.
I doubt I can find it at the Oaxaca Lending Library. It’s a quandary.
I'm not afraid,I'm fkn fuming.
These sick people lying to children
My friend's son was in tears at bedtime,terrified that he had to be a girl when he grew up
Lying to children is beyond the pale and i for one won't lie,won't bend or break for the same of people's 'hurty feels'
Am I a masochist if I’m honestly so excited for this? I’ve actually never read a JB book before- it has the aura of running a tough mudder. The fun is in wading through all that slop. Whoever brings the best example of the most absurd academese wins a prize! 🏆
Alex Byrne wrote a review of this book a few months ago. It's much shorter, and if you read it you might decide not to bother with the book.
https://fairerdisputations.org/judith-butlers-phantasmagoric-world/
Gender is dependent on sex but she reverses it. To do this she ignores biology and evolution, because it's clear they are ontologically prior and undermine her position. So she's using Foucauldian power to enforce an episteme that is separate from reality and encouraging others in that. That is a kind of evil I think.
I resent the idea of spending money on a book by this woman. But "know thine enemy" probably requires it.
People get a PHD using this writing in their papers as scientific method... I am a left person I think but I just can't get my head around this bullshit...
You’ve got a stronger stomach than me 😒
Holding my nose and starting reading. Already feeling gaslit by page 5
Annas-Archive has the book.