Judith Butler is right that feminist critics are scared to read her - but not for the reasons she thinks thecritic.co.uk/judith-butler-…
@glosswitch Rotten word salad: "The body is not passively scripted with cultural codes, as if it were a lifeless recipient of wholly pre-given cultural relations. … embodied selves [don't] pre-exist the cultural conventions which essentially signify bodies."
@glosswitch Butler is one of the main tailors of the Emperor's new clothes. If you don't agree with her, you're a very stupid fascist. If you do agree with her, then you are very clever and enlightened and so much better than the stupid fascists. She has nothing else, except a thesaurus.
@glosswitch @Emily1Collins So very, very, very, very, very boring 😑
@glosswitch I think our boundary of impermeability is normally called skin. We can bathe in mud and not become mud. It's amazing.
@glosswitch @HJoyceGender I'm not "afraid" to read her but I can't do it with a straight face.
@glosswitch tbh her new look is a little unsettling to say the least... (photo credit @ShelleyGldschmt )
@glosswitch @Docstockk 'Excremental passages'? I suppose her work is full of them, not that I've read much. I prefer Hegel. 'The consciousness of the infinite judgement that remains at the level of picture-thinking behaves as urination'. -'Phenomenology of Spirit', 1807.
@glosswitch This should be framed. Wonderful.
@glosswitch The part about excremental passages reminded me of when my female OB/GYN told me my IUD was not actually IN my body. 😵💫
@glosswitch I don't know if I can spare the time to get to the end of one of her sentences let alone an entire book...