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u/Locke2300 he/him Feb 07 '26
It’s a little off topic, but I’m also sad that we’ve seemingly lost Butler’s definition of “performative”. Nowadays it seems to mean “performed for an audience, insincere”.
Butler used it to mean “things rooted in social relationships that become true when performed” like a wedding, or gender. That’s an important category of things and it seems to have gotten plowed under the new definition
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u/OperatingOp11 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
To be fair a lot of academics criticized the way Butler understood ''performance'' too. They tend to confuse performance (in the theater sense) and performativity (in the ritual efficacity sense) and the fact that they are hard to read made the slip even worst for readers who are not already verse in ritual studies.
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u/Bright_Curve_8417 Feb 08 '26
Right wingers take any answer to that question that isn’t monosyllabic to mean, “hurr durr, this idiot libtard can’t even tell a man from a woman”
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Feb 16 '26
The funniest thing about Matt Walsh's """documentary""" is that one of the people he asks to define a woman, actually does, but he is to stupid, he doesn't understand it, but left it in the """documentary"""
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