What about Butler

[K&D]

(You were always on my mind)

Did you know you could look up Judith Butler on Youtube? Is it weird for me to say that she's a rather attractive person? I mean she's older obviously but still. There isn't much of her on Youtube but she's definitely on there, and to think I was just using YouTube to watch The Smiths perform. One could ask, and I don't know how Butler or Morrissey would feel about this, that searching one of those things is not unlike searching the other. After all, Morrissey is "the living sign."

I wish pop-culture/music were taken more seriously for several reasons. How many teenagers do you know who know who Judith Butler is? How many young adults do you know who can point to a time in their life where they were heavily influenced by Britney Spears. I should have been a philosophy major so I could spend all my time reading Judith Butler’s convoluted explanation of gender as preformative but I’d rather “be famous then righteous or holy.” If Gender is preformative and knowledge is masculine, then I’d rather be visible and interpersonal than extrapolating and distant. Five bucks says Butler’s a Morrissey fan, I think they are the same age actually. I realize I am being slightly facetious, here I am philosophizing about philosophy and both Morrissey and I have spend a lot of time letting feminist philosophers influence us from the comfort of our own rooms. How privledged of me. Virginia Wolfe wrote about the need for space, during the not so distant time she was writing. Women or rather, minoritied groups need to have their own room and money and a certain amount of independence in order to affectively become whole but perhaps now that we are working on that issue, perhaps minorities need space in mainstream media as well, which is what now dictates “regulative discourse,” to bring it back to Judy.

Is It possible for Minoritied individuals to be affectivly given space in mainstream media? "TransAmerican Love Story," is a dateing show on Logo. The main character is a transwoman who has an agency who helps people transition, she also is a consultant for films on transissues. I saw a short of hers on LOGO, another privledged space, this time a GLBTQ cable station. I looked her up, I've been trying to look for jobs and was intrested to see what she was doing. She was at the time looking to start a production company and I'm not sure if that still stands, what with her having this show. Is she being assimilated and used by mainstream media or is she making the world more consious of gender and sex as a construction? Do we have to stoop to the lowest common denominator intelectually inorder to have gender truelly be seen for what it is? I hope not.

Speaking of a Room Of Ones Own, I am so glad to be graduating and getting out of this King Single, how is one suppose to proselytize with the shouting that seems to be constant on this floor?

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[Doreen Peri]

How many teenagers do you know who know who Judith Butler is?

I don't know. But I didn't know who she was until I read your post here and googled her name.

I mean she's older obviously but still.

When I googled her name, I found out the year she was born and found out she's not older than me. She's younger.

heh

Good to see you, K&D. It's been a long time. Welcome back.

[K&D]

thanks. This place always seems welcoming. Good to see you too!