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Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:10:44 +0000

In reply to Alison.

Alison – No one should have a clitorectomy! They banned it in Gambia abut recently repealed the ban.

I think it;s stupid to argue with biology. There are two sexes, and the rest is cosplay.

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Alison

Alison — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 14:18:06 +0000

Regarding your response to Bevitron, stating that there are 2 sexes: I agree with you, not that there’s anything to “agree” with. That includes my feelings about intersex individuals, who are neither one nor the other, even at the chromosomal level. I’m very distantly related to a sociologist (this is in Canada) who is prominent in the field of intersex studies and activism (I also discovered to my dismay that I’m not supposed to have liked Middlesex, although I don’t hear anyone raising a hue & cry about Orlando).
For me the problem isn’t the definition of male or female (or let’s say, the determination), but our collective attitude towards it. Our wretched tribalism causes us to get up in everyone else’s business, eg. the clitorectomy performed on this relative as an infant to presumably save the parents’ future difficulty in dealing with a confused and troubled offspring. Well, welcome to the world.

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:48:44 +0000

In reply to Bevitron. Yes, the menstruating woman thing took me aback as well. The whole subject is garbage. There are two sexes and no ideology can change reality. In my humble opinion.

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Bevitron

Bevitron — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:30:40 +0000

Good God!
I’m too dumb to know how to respond in any way that would make sense, or add one jot or tittle to the what I suppose is discussion, or argument, or “any-thing-you-can-obfuscate, I-can-obfuscate-more-ostentatiously” girlyrama that’s going on there.

But! I was really pulled in by that ugly, stylistically awful, migraine-inducing spew of prize-winning bung-chowder sentence-words that had me running to all my “How to Write” books and thesauruses, knowing that I might not be able to equal its unfathomable smartypantsness, but I could give them a run for their ugliness and baroquely pretentious pretension. As a former female menstruator woman, I feel like I have to try.

I’m working on it!

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:58:49 +0000

Hillary Wright – I think the reason it’s such a flashpoint is because to progressives, all that matters is gender identity and colonialism. They both involve oppression. Make it go away!!!

Alison – HAhahahahahahahaha!

Marky – Thank you for setting this student straight. I agree about the timing of Butler’s “they.” There should be a deadline. Also! I just read that some They’s don’t want a penis or vag, but just “smooth skin.”

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Marky

Marky — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:52:14 +0000

I once had a student who was one of her acolytes–like, from afar. This student didn’t go to Berkeley. It was a fiction-writing workshop, and one of this student’s characters was really into reading Judith Butler. I didn’t know who Judith Butler was and assumed she was a romance writer based on the character’s other attributes. The student was upset and said, “She’s the most important cultural critic alive!” I said, “Actually, Sister Wolf is the most important cultural critic alive.” Consternation washed over the student’s face. I went home that night and read some Judith Butler. I returned to class the following week and said to the student, “I kind of think Judith Butler is a romance writer.”
P.S. I also think it’s interesting that a vanguard like Judith Butler would adopt the ‘they’ pronoun so late in the game–like a middle-schooler from Indianapolis who wears nail polish and dyes his hair blue. She should have adopted ‘they’ decades ago.

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Alison

Alison — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:14:31 +0000

I wonder if she would enjoy Dr. Murphy’s big baby farm….

Comment on Judith Butler: Gender Schmender by Hillary Wright

Hillary Wright — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:53:23 +0000

I have just finished reading an article in Canada’s national newspaper on the subject of Gender fluidity and Transgendered people. The author is quoted as saying that this affects 1 percent of the population. Why so much press when it affects a minuscule part of the population? I am also tired of this discussion. As JK Rowling said ‘a woman is someone who menstrates. However, she had to profusely apologize to the transgender population and ‘got cancelled’.

Comment on After I’m Dead by Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:29:10 +0000

*Alison, I am me and not Lauren, who used to be my webmaster. GODAMMIT.

Comment on After I’m Dead by lauren

lauren — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:23:08 +0000

Alison -Sorry for my delayed response! I’m not actually grateful…I mean, I’ll miss these things but I’m such an ingrate that I can’t process things that way!