What kind of argument is that?... I wasn't the one who started this thread - you're the one who posted the Butler text. I'm just responding to it.
I brought up gas chambers not because sex is so grave a matter but because I suspect that people who hold the Butler position lack the courage of their philosophical convictions. If they really think it's unfounded to refer to anything extra-discursive and should limit ourselves to references to discursive constructions of things, does that view extend to those aspects of (okay, I'll say it) reality that they think are really important? If not, why not?
Seth