Chris Hayes

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But under the admittedly dense language, Butler (along with many others) was shaping a theory of gender that would move from the radical fringes to close to the mainstream. The basic thesis is that gender is socially constructed and "performed" and is distinct from biology. — PolitiTweet.org

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When I was an undergrad, Butler was the ultimate example of impenetrable, obscurantist academic prose that almost no one could read or understand. She won some "worst academic sentence" contest and people would use her writing as a kind of punchline example of jarongy nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

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That foundational idea was, twenty years ago, *wildly* foreign and alien. But over the last three decades, it might be one of the single most influential ideas to emerge from the academy. In other words, Butler did everything "wrong" from the standpoint of "doing politics." — PolitiTweet.org

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