[lbo-talk] Butler

[Miles Jackson]

Seth Ackerman wrote:
> 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
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I'm not sure how to say this without being blunt: You're completely 
missing the point of her argument.  Nowhere does Butler claim that 
"biological facts must not be real".  As shag points out, your responses 
in this thread are making Butler's point for her--and you don't seem to 
realize it!

Miles