Great conversation! Judith Butler was one of a few academics that I thought I dislike and that I hesitated to read (mostly because of misinformation and my own ignorance) but now end up really admiring her work
Yes, Dave Chapelle meant ‘sex’ not ‘gender’ when he said ‘gender is a fact’. However, that’s symptomatic of the confusion that gender identity ideology has itself caused, through its attempt to erase the word sex in law and public discourse and replace it with gender. Otherwise, Chapelle was of course right. We are mammals and we are a sexually dimorphic species. If you attend the New School you might get muddled about that, but if you were a farmer and couldn’t correctly observe the sex of your animals, you’d soon make a right mess of things and have unwanted biological reproduction and chaos all over. Gender identity ideology is of course a very urban notion and indicative of our growing estrangement from the natural world. Perhaps the New School would like to host a debate between Judith Butler and Helen Joyce? That would be intellectually invigorating. And maybe offer a home to an ‘endangered academic’ like the feminist philosopher Kathleen Stock OBE, hounded out of her professorship by masked TRA protesters with pink and blue flares, and inspired by gender identity ideology to think that reasonable people are fascists.
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I like the idea of slowing down the conversation and including different perspectives. Kathleen Stock would be a great guest imo.
Great conversation! Judith Butler was one of a few academics that I thought I dislike and that I hesitated to read (mostly because of misinformation and my own ignorance) but now end up really admiring her work
Thanks for your commentary especially about Dave Chapelle
Yes, Dave Chapelle meant ‘sex’ not ‘gender’ when he said ‘gender is a fact’. However, that’s symptomatic of the confusion that gender identity ideology has itself caused, through its attempt to erase the word sex in law and public discourse and replace it with gender.
Otherwise, Chapelle was of course right. We are mammals and we are a sexually dimorphic species. If you attend the New School you might get muddled about that, but if you were a farmer and couldn’t correctly observe the sex of your animals, you’d soon make a right mess of things and have unwanted biological reproduction and chaos all over. Gender identity ideology is of course a very urban notion and indicative of our growing estrangement from the natural world.
Perhaps the New School would like to host a debate between Judith Butler and Helen Joyce? That would be intellectually invigorating. And maybe offer a home to an ‘endangered academic’ like the feminist philosopher Kathleen Stock OBE, hounded out of her professorship by masked TRA protesters with pink and blue flares, and inspired by gender identity ideology to think that reasonable people are fascists.
Changing the definition of words to fit an agenda. Cool!
Interesting that no one seems able to answer you. Merry Christmas Erica.