conec posted:

me n other person in cuda got into a fatal fight i told em i wish dey were dead so yea

Skylark posted:

http://www.transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htm this jb interview from a couple days ago really turned me into a "butlieber"

JB: Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves. If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood. I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender.

I happen to agree with her on grounds of pragmatism if nothing else but I don't quite understand what the thought behind the opposite hypothetical scenario (eradicating gender) would be.....is it that we would shed our obsolete weights of expectation and pantomime and be able to just relate as human beings?

others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are

To paraphrase Henry Ford, 'you can have any gender you want so long as you're gendered'....Detroit to Berkeley, american liberalism comes full circle.

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

jewdeath buttlord

thats my joke

yes its hilarious i wasnt trying to steal sorry

jiroemon1897 posted:

Such gay, Such win

I dunno how it works in the states but over here you've got parliamentary privilege for saying things that might otherwise be considered libelous, so long as you say them in parliament. Kirby was on the High Court (equivalent to ur supreme court) at the time and an old farmer conservative Senator called Bill Heffernan kept getting up in the Senate and saying that Kirby was using government-provided cars to go pick up rent boys, and he kept doing it until even John Howard told him to shut up......this must bring back memories

In fact, it is ridiculous for such gay to sponsor dealing with others' human rights issue.

i get the impression that this is a pretty sick burn but i don't quite understand it, i can't think of many things gayer than human rights.

babyfinland posted:

its ridiculous to him bc someone who is flagrantly violating a basic natural law is chosen to judge his country's adherence to such things

hmm you're right, it really isn't the right job for a white australian

Skylark posted:

http://www.transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htmthis jb interview from a couple days ago really turned me into a "butlieber"

Butler seems like a rly nice person but the fact that she has to fall back to morality, human rights, individual choice, and other liberal justifications (the same ones she deconstructed in Gender Trouble) shows the weakness of deconstruction and non-marxist feminism. also how people have an "academic" voice and opinion and a regular one which appears as a different person; makes academia seem like a cargo cult.

aerdil posted:

http://time.com/85933/why-ill-never-apologize-for-my-white-male-privilege/

queer this guy.

conec posted:

ilmdge posted:

conec how many people were in cuda

two, me n another person. we disbanded bafoe n i kept trucking wif cuda cos i came up w that name but na its completely over now so rip

if you kept it going by you'resaelf, why did you end it? alone is, like, right there in the name