Butler’s Gender Performativity Explained

The mystery wrapped in an enigma revealed! BUTLER’S “GENDER PERFORMATIVITY” EXPLAINED NOW WITH CATS! Reading Judith Butler hurts my brain. What on earth does “performativity” actually mean? I can help! Let me start from the beginning... See, there is no “interior truth” to gender identity, because sex is always already “gender”. You lost me at the “beginning” Why is there no inner essence to gender identity? Because gender is a result of repeated “styles of the flesh” that “congeal over time”. This process makes us think that there is a natural inner truth, “the construction ‘compels’ our belief in its necessity and naturalness” Gender Trouble But if there is no inner gender essence, riddle me this: how is sex already gender? Don’t we have lady bits and man bits and that is a scientific FACT? It comes down to “heterosexual matrix” Yeeeah, not quite...

A comic uses cats and photographs of Judith Butler to explain, and deliberately overcomplicate, Butler’s theory of gender performativity. The cats repeatedly become confused as the explanation moves from “performativity” to the “heterosexual matrix,” turning dense academic language into an absurd reaction meme. It is sent when someone gives an elaborate theoretical explanation that leaves everyone more confused than before. EN: A comic uses cats and photographs of Judith Butler to explain, and deliberately overcomplicate, Butler’s theory of gender performativity. The cats repeatedly become confused as the explanation moves from “performativity” to the “heterosexual matrix,” turning dense academic language into an absurd reaction meme. It is sent when someone gives an elaborate theoretical explanation that leaves everyone more confused than before.

• @fknktty / 9523 2023-12-30