we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times” https://t.co/pDBb6t1pXu 本質主義への回帰の傾向を嘆いている。読んでいて懐かしの90年代という感じがしてきた。

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Gender Trouble From Wikipedia,

Both assume that there exists a female "self-identical being" in need of representation, and their arguments hide the impossibility of "being" a gender at all. Butler argues instead that gender is performative: no identity exists behind the acts that supposedly "express" gender, and these acts constitute, rather than express, the illusion of the stable gender identity. If the appearance of “being” a gender is thus an effect of culturally influenced acts, then there exists no solid, universal gender: constituted through the practice of performance, the gender "woman" (like the gender "man")he gender "woman" (like the gender "man") remains contingent and open to interpretation and "resignification".

維摩経フェミとしては特に新しい発想ではないな。

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

The philosopher and gender theorist discusses tensions in the feminist movement over trans rights.

The feminist who holds such a view presumes that the penis does define the person, and that anyone with a penis would identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside. It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise. This is a rich fantasy, and one that comes from powerful fears, but it does not describe a social reality. 

チンコのついているトランス女性が更衣室や女子トイレに入ることについて恐怖を抱いている女性がいるが、なんでそんなにチンコを恐れるんだ、実際のトランス女性たちのふるまいに基づかないそうした恐怖の方が問題ではないか、ということだろうな？

 So if we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it. It won’t do to say that threats against some people are tolerable but against others are intolerable.

　暴力やハラスメントは誰がやってもまずいわけだけど、一部の人たちに対するハラスメントだけを取り上げて、全体をみないのはまずいんじゃないか、と。

ーーこれ、日本でBLM批判する人たちにもあてはまると思うぞ、おれは。

BLMの一部暴徒は許されるべきものではないが、同様に、BLMを襲う右翼過激派の暴行も許されるべきものではない。

そして、全体としてみれば、アメリカで、黒人や先住民が差別されているのは明らかであって、この全体像を抜きにして、一部の暴行、略奪だけとりあげるのもおかしい。