Submitted by Necessary_Tadpole692 t3_10x97jk in philosophy
InterminableAnalysis t1_j7ug43k wrote
Reply to comment by WesternIron in Judith Butler: their philosophy of gender explained by Necessary_Tadpole692
>her philosophy often was more descriptive and and deconstructionist
Yeah that's roughly my understanding as well. I don't really remember Butler saying anything along the lines of "you should all act your gender like this!", though there is a kind of prescriptivism at the heart of any descriptive enterprise (i.e., what I'm describing is true and should be seen as such, or something like this).
>About how we can look individuals that don’t act in the binary and try understand their gender role
Not only that, but also about how to understand oneself when one is unable to identify with some such classification. It really is a work that moves in the direction of some limited kind of liberation.
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