This is not a drill
Allison Bailey is deeply unimpressed by Judith Butler.
1/ Judith Butler once again demonstrating that a minority of women are capable of being woman-hating, penis pandering, vicious zealots. All the while imagining that they’re being deliciously transgressive.
Woman-hatred is not new. It’s not radical. It’s just disgraceful. https://t.co/NQ8ksIFJpL
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) January 1, 2021
3/ Butler accuses JKR & therefore all survivors of having “fostered hatred & misunderstanding & perhaps capitalised on a history of sexual trauma”.
It‘s a special kind of woman that would say such a thing, of another named woman, who has been bombarded with threats & abuse.
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) January 1, 2021
4/ Pay attention. Butler & her ilk are driving this attack on women, opening up the floodgates to any man that wants to abuse women & trample over our rights, while barely concealing their hard-on.
Fightback in 2021, with all you have. #ThisIsNotADrill.
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— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) January 1, 2021
I do not have much of an idea of Butler’s philosophy, though she is apparently a philosophy academic. From Wikipedia:
So ‘they’ (plural) while seving as the Maxine Elliot Professor, Chair etc… (all singulars) etc etc… is a sort of multiple in one: something of a blend of Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t Cheshire Cat. ‘They’ also appears to substitute for ‘her’ and ‘she’, a gimmick that I must confess is a new one on me.
I would say that it is probably too early to tell where this distinctive philosophy is leading. (I could offer a suggestion or two, but some might find them offensive, so I’d better not.)
And please disregard the spare ‘]’ in the above blockquote. They must have made their own way in.
Omar, I think those brackets are like apostrophes; there are lots of them roaming around looking for any opportunity to butt in where they are not wanted.
‘”they” began teaching’; ‘”they” served’; ‘”they are also…’. The self-regarding triviality of this. The ‘they’ changes nothing in reality. It is merely one of those meaningless games with words that suggest you are taking a serious position on something when in fact you are not. But, as Martha Nussbaum has argued so well, Butler does not take any serious positions, being content with a mere frivolous playing with words and concepts that is designed to appeal to a captive audience, who are stuck in the maze of academe, unconcerned with real issues, and suppose that a display of being a ‘hip’ thinker constitutes actual exciting thought. Butler is fundamentally as frivolous in her politics as those many people on the right who suppose that the only important thing in politics is to stick one to the libs – Milo Yiannopoulos, for example.
Hannah Arendt wants her chair back.
iknklast @#3:
You could be on the money there.
But a slice or two with Occam’s razor cuts through all the shrubbery and foliage to reveal Murphy’s Law.
Where do people keep pulling these crazed narratives from (I’ve seen a lot of this over the last few days, much of it directed at me, I wish everyone would go back to work)?
As far as I’m aware, JKR has mentioned her sexual trauma exactly once in public and not to brow-beat but to explain that she knows what it’s like.
Helen Staniland (whom I mentioned on another thread) was caught up in this kind of deranged story-telling on Twitter yesterday, to the extent that she started to feel (understandably) worried for her safety. People were imposing narratives on the conversation that imagined her rushing to her male friends to ask them to violently attack trans women who tried to enter women’s toilets. And then using this wholly invented narrative as proof that she’s evil.
It’s so bizarre. Then of course, this being Twitter, the tweets about these made-up stories were amplified through retweeting, which is why Helen started to get worried; violent people might actually believe them (or use them as an excuse).
Twitter, noun: a platform for extending the effects of malicious gossip beyond middle school?