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I’m not kidding, the last pages of this book feel like the climax of a thriller. The analysis of everyone else falls away, and Butler swoops in with their own conclusion:
Gender is a set of continuous actions to prop up the idea that gender is something at all.
— Dec 06, 2025 11:09AM
Gender is a set of continuous actions to prop up the idea that gender is something at all.
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This is one of the most difficult things I’ve ever read. I love it.
— Dec 03, 2025 03:50PM
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[someone yells from downstairs]: Dinner is ready!
Butler: What do we mean by this? The subject, dinner, is said to be presently “ready.” Thus dinner must not be “is,” in its original state; dinner must become ready. Dinner must become “is” by the construct of readying. Dinner is not born ready. Dinner is made ready; dinner is by necessity a state that only exists after readying.
— Aug 18, 2025 08:24AM
Butler: What do we mean by this? The subject, dinner, is said to be presently “ready.” Thus dinner must not be “is,” in its original state; dinner must become ready. Dinner must become “is” by the construct of readying. Dinner is not born ready. Dinner is made ready; dinner is by necessity a state that only exists after readying.
