After examining Butler’s through the lens of Stryker, it is obvious that Butler’s theories fail to account for the lived experience of gendered individuals. By seeing the gendered individual as purely performed, Butler disregards the gendered body, which Stryker argues is actually very important to appreciating a true analysis of gendered experience. Butler’s distinction between “performed” and “performative” is not fully developed. This can be partially linked to how complicated gender is, yet, she does not make a direct claim that gender is either performed or performative. Stryker might say that Butler managed to accomplish further complicating the subject in her effort to clarify the ways in which gender is performed and perceived by others.
