[lbo-talk] Butler

[Seth Ackerman]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Part of her point is how deeply invested people are in making this  
> distinction. If you play with the dressing conventions, or ignore  
> them, then it's as if people have nothing to hold on to and it makes  
> them nervous. They really really want there to be some physical  
> ground to the social distinction.
>   

Yes, that's right. And then her mistake is to say that because people 
try to ground their arbitrary social distinctions in certain biological 
facts then the biological facts must not be real. It seems like a way 
for her to salve her own anxiety.

Seth