>I took it that the addition of "Judy" [in questions addressed to her]
>was an effort to dislodge me from the more formal "Judith" and to recall
>me to a bodily life that could not be theorized away. There was a
>certain exasperation in the delivery of that final diminutive, a certain
>patronizing quality which (re)constituted me as an unruly child, one who
>needed to be brought to task, restored to that bodily being which is,
>after all, considered to be most real, most...
>
> Judith Butler, *Bodies That Matter* (London: Routledge, 1993), pp.
>ix-x.
Oh, and don't even mention the two-issue fanzine Judy! to her. Highly distressing.
Doug