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Judith Butler tells lesbian she should stay home if she doesn't want to see penises in female-only spaces

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IwantToRetire · 15/06/2024 01:33

A non-binary gender theorist told a lesbian activist that she should stay at home if she doesn't want to see a penis in a female-only space.

Judith Butler made the remarks after being questioned over their views during an event on Thursday in San Francisco.

Local activist Amanda Kovattana questioned the 68-year-old over whether trans women who still have penises should be admitted to female only spaces.

Kovattana asked Butler: 'If gender is to liberate us, why can't I as a lesbian, have a d*-free space? A space that is for women only, without penises?'

Butler quickly fired back at Kovattana, saying: 'I think you can do that in your home', which was welcomed with applause from the audience.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13531045/non-binary-author-lesbian-female-spaces.html

"Applause from the audience" ??!!

Can also be read at https://archive.ph/RjDvS

WomensReel twiX thread in article at https://x.com/WomenAreReals/status/1801625752393421243

Author tells lesbian to stay home if she doesn't want to see penises

Local activist Amanda Kovattana, right, questioned the 68-year-old author, left, over whether trans women who still have penises should be admitted to female only spaces.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13531045/non-binary-author-lesbian-female-spaces.html

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MarieDeGournay · 15/06/2024 09:55

TWETMIRF · 15/06/2024 09:48

Parklife!

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If you'd posted this at 7.50 before BackToLurk at 7.51, you'd have been in contention for the 🌟of the dayGrin

Brill!

TWETMIRF · 15/06/2024 09:48

Frumpyfrau · 15/06/2024 09:31

Her perputual in/suffer(ability) has long — or at least in a post-Derridean landscape — been (if we can at all impose a reductive temporality), a source (without seeking a fixed and therefore mythical ‘origin’) of consternation, compounded by her lamentable (and entirely hollow and essentialist despite reaching for fluidity) philosophical acumen.

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Parklife!

WarriorN · 15/06/2024 09:41

Saw this on Twitter; Amanda sounds amazing!

She's published a book too that also sounds a really interesting read.

Love the title!

"The unexpected penis."

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8QBJXCK?ref=cmmswrrcpudddpXRR2D21J0KTRN28NDX7S

theilltemperedclavecinist · 15/06/2024 09:35

Didn't some women try this (meeting at home) and a transwoman demanded entry? Or did I dream it? I've been searching but all the hits are about sad trans people's experiences.

Chersfrozenface · 15/06/2024 09:32

Frumpyfrau · 15/06/2024 09:31

Her perputual in/suffer(ability) has long — or at least in a post-Derridean landscape — been (if we can at all impose a reductive temporality), a source (without seeking a fixed and therefore mythical ‘origin’) of consternation, compounded by her lamentable (and entirely hollow and essentialist despite reaching for fluidity) philosophical acumen.

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Brava!

Frumpyfrau · 15/06/2024 09:31

Her perputual in/suffer(ability) has long — or at least in a post-Derridean landscape — been (if we can at all impose a reductive temporality), a source (without seeking a fixed and therefore mythical ‘origin’) of consternation, compounded by her lamentable (and entirely hollow and essentialist despite reaching for fluidity) philosophical acumen.

C1N1C · 15/06/2024 09:31

Is this a female conspiracy to get to see more penises?

Jokes aside, wo.wn need their own spaces, I don't think that's debatable.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/06/2024 09:26

Butler is a ridiculous attention seeker.

WickedSerious · 15/06/2024 09:25

It'd be nice if Judith Butler stayed home.

ahagwearsapointybonnet · 15/06/2024 09:23

It says it was an audience of Butler fans, so they probably DID applaud!
I like the quotes they included at the end though 😂

FrancescaContini · 15/06/2024 09:18

MaMaMalenka · 15/06/2024 07:09

Judith Butler has called the rape of women at the Nova Festival "resistance" - I don't see how anyone expects anything from that disgraceful "feminist"

WTF??

MarieDeGournay · 15/06/2024 09:15

BackToLurk · 15/06/2024 07:51

I’m just surprised she managed to say it in only one sentence.

It's only 7.51am but you've already won the 🌟for todaySmile

BackToLurk · 15/06/2024 07:51

I’m just surprised she managed to say it in only one sentence.

MaMaMalenka · 15/06/2024 07:09

Judith Butler has called the rape of women at the Nova Festival "resistance" - I don't see how anyone expects anything from that disgraceful "feminist"

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IwantToRetire · 15/06/2024 02:20

Catnipcupcakes · 15/06/2024 02:03

Surely nobody listens to Judith Butler any more?

You'd like to think so, but apparently she had an audience, and they applauded her for telling a lesbian she should stay at home implyinga man's right to impose his penis on a women only space!! Angry

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lonelywater · 15/06/2024 02:06

Catnipcupcakes · 15/06/2024 02:03

Surely nobody listens to Judith Butler any more?

Always (and I mean always) good for a laugh.

Catnipcupcakes · 15/06/2024 02:03

Surely nobody listens to Judith Butler any more?

lonelywater · 15/06/2024 02:02

It would be, perhaps, more newsworthy to receive a report of Butler saying something, anything which wasn't completely hatstand. I really do think she just makes it up as she goes along, spouting the first thing that comes into her head, and its all ocean going bollocks.

crowgift · 15/06/2024 01:57

she never fails to disappoint (at least she is predictable).

FrothyCothy · 15/06/2024 01:38

“Get back in the closet, lesbians”. What regressive nonsense from Butler.