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Caleb Zimmer
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So far Butler has urged us that the regular goal of feminist work to categorize which types of people need it’s advocacy is not a good idea. She listed like a million good reasons why that’ll blow up in our faces. She instead posits that “paradoxically, representation will [only work] for feminism only when the subject of ‘women’ is nowhere presumed.” (Butler)
— 6 hours, 18 min ago
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Caleb Zimmer
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This book was not written for casual readers. I’m struggling to keep up with the slashing pace at which Butler rolls out her contingent paths of thought. I will often re-read paragraphs sometimes more than once. Judith Butler’s brilliance is so fierce that I find myself sometimes squinting or looking away to blink the spots from my vision before continuing.
— 6 hours, 26 min ago
Caleb Zimmer
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Chapter 3 will begin with organizing popular conceptions about assigning sex and gender to human bodies. The second part will discuss how these conceptions are utilized within governing or representative politics.
— 6 hours, 40 min ago
Caleb Zimmer
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Chapter 2 will peer into the incest taboo as the driving factor in limiting genders and sexualities within a heteronormative frame. Lotta psychoanalysis and shit. The incest taboo will be exposed to the critiques from chapter 1 about the influence of a sexist and masculinity economy on language and thought.
— 6 hours, 47 min ago
Caleb Zimmer
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Chapter 1 will “reconsider the status of women as the subject of feminism and the sex/gender distinction.” Emphasis will be placed on phallocentrism and compulsory heterosexuality as dominant historical narratives against the questions of languages ability to represent ideas of “sex” and “the feminine”, respectively.
— 6 hours, 52 min ago
Caleb Zimmer
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Emily Beresford’s voice sounds like a parody of Susie Myerson from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 😭😭😭
— Jul 09, 2026 07:40PM
Caleb Zimmer
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Emily Beresford’s narration is SO FUCKING ANNOYING 😭 I really want to make it through this book, but goddammit her voice is so fucking headass 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
— Jul 09, 2026 07:24PM