Judith Butler Big Think Summary

Judith Butler is a feminist who focuses her philosophical work on gender theory within the community. When talking about gender she brings up many different theories within her works. A couple ways Butler thinks is within the LGBT community and how those people come about. She talks about how she truly believe that gender is different than sexuality. Lastly she speaks about how the way we porta yourself is how we see our own sexuality or how we should view it instead of the communal ways. Butler is a very influential lesbian who has inspired thousands of people with her works and will continue to do so. A couple years ago, back in 2012, butler was asked a series of questions during an interview with “Big Think”. During this interview she was asked “what does it mean that gender is performative?” answering to this she gave a couple of different points in which I can agree with completely. She says that in the beginning, meaning at birth, we aren’t a gender. As we grow up, by the way we act is what are gender becomes. No one is born a man or born a women, granted we have those attributes but that doesn’t fully consider us man or women. With that being said she also went on and talked about how gender is …show more content…
They asked “how does cultural discourse influence homosexuality?” Butler makes a good point when answering this question she says that as people become more accepting to the LGBT community people are more likely to become, which makes perfect sense. People don’t want to come out to a community that will put you down for being a certain way. As the time has gone on and being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, a lot more people have come out because they feel respected and “normal”. Just in the past few years laws have been changed and because of the generation of kids we have now many adults are influenced to be supportive, which is a huge step in the