Judith Butler in The Guardian

[generaljake]

Goodness. Not sure what I’m allowed to say without being banned but this is … interesting.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash

It's classic narcissism isn't it?

@donquixotedelamancha

Given that JB has written about Arendt and Eichmann in the past, it feels very odd that she is not seeing the linguistic similarities for herself

I always like to think the best of people so (until proven wrong) I shall assume she's a callous grifter who knows exactly what she's doing and doesn't believe a world of the drivel she spouts. The alternative is much worse.

The longer this goes on the more it looks like she does indeed know exactly what she is doing, and believes she is doing it for righteous reasons. IMO, she is absolutely poisonous, believes firmly in the virtue of Queer Theory, and has combined it with a fearsome ego that has been fluffed by the gaggle of eager disciples. I think she is producing, with deep cynicism, propaganda that will benefit her disruptive aims and keep her status within the group.

@AlfonsoTheUnrepetant

I think Butler is trying to fill the gap left by Camille Paglia. Does anyone else remember her?

She's still around, and thinks Butler is a "slick, super-careerist Foucault-flunky".

shes à fucking hack to the start and end of it we are rewarding her mediocrity (generous) with a 100 post thread on here.
please let this person die in obscurity as they deserve.

She's still around, and thinks Butler is a "slick, super-careerist Foucault-flunky".

Thanks! Yep, that sounds like Camille Paglia, all right.

Just seen this. I've had to stop half way through the article.

What the actual fuck am I reading? It's insane.

It's interesting how she claims everything good for her side and everything bad for ours with no basis. Of course their side understands that there is such a thing as biology, it just doesn't mean anything. Of course we are the ones that want to force people into roles on the basis of their--wait a minute, the word "gender" is literally that, yet she wants to make it a word that mystically means something very abstract and holy, as if gender did not literally mean "masculine" and "feminine" rather than "man" and "woman."