Latest hits: if gender is performative that means it’s fake and patriarchy doesn’t exist! I don’t know who Judith Butler is!

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I got hit with the exact opposite yesterday: “gender cannot be only performative because patriarchy exists and that would mean invalidating people hurt by it”

    So tiring

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      6 days ago

      So close yet so far, the entire point is that it’s performative and therefore millions of people were hurt for no real reason.