It does her serve her very right in the very ironic and fitting Death of the Author way, as people have taken her unreadable garbage and taken it to their own conclusion.
I have a ton of friends in the humanities who swear by Butler and almost feel personally insulted when I call out her bullshit. What I do try to tell them is that I am less interested in Butler than in the way her "work" is being used by a new generation of genderspecials.
She's pervasive these days, along with Foucault and the other kiddie diddlers, at least if you're going through any kind of education related to the arts not to mention social sciences and education. For someone so invested in breaking boundaries, it's also really ironic that her writings are the new mainstream. "Queering queer theory" is the paper I am waiting for. Then we've come full circle.
At any rate, she seems like such an overvalued person - reading interviews with her, I get the impression that she's kind of intellectually lazy, to be honest. And I don't think I've ever seen her respond in good faith to the many, many, many criticisms leveled at her.
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Stay out of our bathrooms,
Stay out of our video games,
Stay out of our shit.
We didn't invite you bitches.
Infact leave the fags alone too.
Thanks, this fag appreciates the support.
Oh and no one, I mean, no one will be even the slightest bit impressed with your "dong", honey. It's what you're born with that matters.
I think it's in part due to the rise of social media websites like facebook, more people getting internet access, and just how prevalent smartphones have become. Social media sites started getting based entirely around documenting your life and spreading information, better access to the web means more adults that don't seem to know any better, and smartphones given to kids means entirely unsupervised internet usage.
That's my guess as to why kids seem to share so much info online nowadays. As well as probably ignoring or not paying attention to internet safety that they'd be taught in school.
I'd like to take this opportunity to (again, probably) recommend "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jon Haidt and Greg Lukianoff. It speaks directly about these things as being a significant factor in the complete lack of resilience to opposing viewpoints found in today's youth. The book is an expansion of
this original essay, which you should give yourself the time to read. Notably also in the Atlantic,
home of the notorious Jesse Singal troon article.
I was a bit too old to really get too invested in HP but the fact that she is UNCANCELLABLE is gold.
Amen. I love seeing the troons piss against the wind.
Not for a lack of trying though, staff threatened to walk out.
I’m not gonna tell you what you should or shouldn’t do with your life or your body but...
a) if you want to take noxious substances then I guarantee that illegal recreational drugs will be a lot more enjoyable than an artificial steroid designed for men with failing testicles.
Bump, line, dose, whatever. Have fun. Always have a trip-pilot for your first go and only do half what you're offered. Stay safe.
ETA: NO NEEDLES!
On a related note, I read somewhere that the current generations are having less sex than, like, pretty much ever before with the age of first sexual experience going up as well. I know I should provide a link, but I think I'd trigger the FBI by trying to search for it.
But it adds up to a generation of humans raised more or less entirely online, not having meaningful interaction in real life. It seems really sad.
to me it seems like hsts are usually pretty aware that they're just gay transvestites. i might be wrong but they seem more in touch with reality and much less invested in make-believe like the 'trans lesbians' are. also less annoying and obnoxious, and less trying to force their shit on other people.
I am just going to say Monroe Bergdorf, Juno Dawson, Laverne Cox...true, they're not quite as obnoxious as the AGP's, but really, there's no reason to give the HSTSs a pass. Most drag never quite sat right with me either, because a lot of it is really women-hating tropes - it takes a real star to rise above those cliches.
Whatever you do, I hope you bear in mind that the minute you start taking pills every day or have surgery, the more alienated you'll most likely actually
feel from your body. Please explore other options and see a therapist if you can, as you said you would in an earlier post. It's going to take guts to push back on gender, but I hope you can if that proves to be the case.
You might also be able to reflect yourself in this photo doc called "The Detransitioners." It's not easy reading.
Depending on where you are (don't tell us), there might already be detrans networks and support groups hiding somewhere near. There are several on Twitter; go look them up.
Whatever you do, please don't be that guy (looks down).
Oh jeez, that's just embarrassing.
