Judith Butler, author of Who's Afraid of Gender? warns us (again, as in her book Gender Trouble) about gender as malleable, fickle, inauthentic, something learned through repeated performance and rewards (for the performance) in social interaction. In this new book, Butler's thesis is a cautionary tale about the "Gender Ideology" movement sweeping the globe, and with which "47" -- We don't use his name -- swooped into a second term. You know the one, the ideology that says gender and sex are symbiotically tied and real, when in fact they are both social constructs. In essence, Butler's thesis warns us that the buck does not stop with "gender." And that's what we're witnessing: A full-blown attack on DEI, a backlash against the Civil Rights Movement, a white supremacy (which is wrapped unequivocally in misogyny). "Gender ideology" is a cancer that has now spread into anti DEI, a "moralizing sadism," as Butler calls it. #Resist.
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