Let me begin by saying that I do think Therefore I Am is a parody account created to troll me. My guess is that the parody post came from Third, because the jokes line up with some of Third's misconceptions about male lesbianism. More on that later. If truly an account was created to parody me, then this only shows how popular the male lesbian is. The male lesbian puts asses in seats, in show business terms. Maybe my book will get published. But who would publish it? Verso?
Basically what I'm saying is, if I got to prove I'm not a chatterbot, Third has to prove he didn't make a parody account to troll me. Because if he did, he really is in love with me. <3
Here's the thing: if the post in question is indeed a parody of me, its author has failed to understand that Butler is the philosopher of parody par excellence. Gender parody is a key concept in Butler. The male lesbian, as an archetype, as a character, is my parody of Butler's concept of gender parody. I self-parody the self in itself. Thus, I feel fine about a good parody post: it gives me a chance to clarify some truths about my view as most good humor contains some truth. (Read that last line again Third. We can't all be Mr. Warmth.) Male lesbianism has always been a social satire, a serious project defying the boundaries of serious work and satire.
You guys underestimate how must I like Zizek. I read 600 pages of his Hegel tome. He makes a great point in it: in Dreams of a Spirit Seer, Kant's parody of Swedenborg, therein is contained the truth of Kant's transcendental subject. Or as Bill Hicks more vulgarly put it: heavenly shrooms grow from cow poop. What is the truth in comedy?
i read about the male lesbians and i am broadly in support of it. i would eat pussy.
Who wouldn't? Probably Thirdform.
what i find interesting about pussy is that its something women have but men don't, but both men and women have anuses so cunnilingus is sapphic-oriented; men who eat pussy are therefore lesbians.
Pretty close actually. Originally, I coined the term "male lesbian" because I thought female lesbians eat each other's pussies without asking. In fact, actual female lesbians do not do this. I find this upsetting. The real point is that cunnilingus is non-phallic, you don't need a dick to do it.
the irony though is that even my dick is sapphic, i don't desire to penetrate as such, but to be enveloped and "devoured" by a pussy/vagina.
What makes this part so funny, is that it's technically true. The reality of the sex act supports a deconstructionist interpretation. Who is truly active and passive or receptive in the sex act? It's ambiguous. Both parties are both active and passive during the sex act. The heterosexual sex act in other words, is a phenomenon we can deconstruct, interpret in non-binary terms while acknowledging a pre-existent binary structure. Even heterosexual penetrative sex can be interpreted as both empowering and disempowering at the same time. Bet you didn't catch the reference. I mean, a man can be on top or woman can be on top, who is in control and has the power is contingent.
I'll give a better example: oral sex involves a passive recipient and an active participant, but both men and women can both give and receive head. Therefore, the active and passive roles are played out independent of each partner's gender.
"WHAT DOES EVERYBODY WANT?!"
fact is even some women these days are pro-patriarchy, but that just shows you have female phallus worshippers and male pussy eaters.
This part I actually agree with. Plenty of women do worship the phallus, which is not a sex act but actually a sinister behavior in which a person endorses phallocentrism, patriarchal supremacy.
And yes, the male lesbian's non-phallic sexuality mostly focuses on acts not involving the dick.
"WHAT DOES EVERYBODY NEED?"
I wonder what Padraig does to defy the phallus.
it's also known that eve was created from the uterus of adam---tsela is translated as rib by patriarchists/male supremacists and its also known jesus himself had female disciples who were written out of the scriptures.
Only Third would come up with something like this. I think the idea that Jesus had female disciples is pretty cool though.
i think the problem in these days society is that [wo]men loving women are looked down upon and the end goal is concentration camps for people who are sexually attracted to women.
Obviously no one is saying this.
The problem is not that people are oppressed for loving women, but that women in particular and the feminine perspective in general are under-represented. We don't know how to talk about femininity.
people literally get arrested for having sex with women, fired from their jobs etc. look at bill clinton, vince mcmahon etc whereas polanski is celebrated for anally(!) raping a minor and goethe gets praised despite being a pedophile himself.
Male lesbianism opposes sexual harrasment and pedophilia. By principle. Male lesbianism is fairly close to Jewish secular morality. My values are universal, I like to think.
the far-right these days promotes a pederastic ideal because of its aristocratic/ancient greece ["womb" of the western world] associations, the homo-erotic fascination with the taliban. the samurai of feudal japan,
Again, not too far from the truth. You ever notice how many far-right men (Matt Walsh, for example) are noted proponents of pedophilia?
nazis promote tsarist masculinism onto women in the form body-building fetishism (literally destroying and re-building a woman's body into that of the idealised male of michelangelo's
david/ronnie coleman), the ss & ernest roehm.
See Ilsa She Wolf of the SS ahahahahaha
that's also why i'm suspicious of tomboys who are supported also by the far-right. i do think they basically support patriarchy, they don't really attack gender but re-enforce by acting like the adolescent males of ancient greece who are supported by the far-right, knowingly or otherwise.
I disagree. I love tomboys. Who else would a sissy (antonym of 'tomboy') like the male lesbian, marry? Some tomboys support the patriarchy just like some sissies do. But I maintain that some sissies and tomboys share a revolutionary unconditional romance.
aristocracy is also very opposed to vaginas since women are considered utilitarian.
I've always maintained that women are considered non-utilitarian, feminine love is unconditional.
nazi-style sex is 100% anti-vagina also, you never really hear nazis talking about eating pussy. lebensraum breeding farms instead. also one of the problems of porn is that it shows too much,
It's funny because maybe a lot of nazis ate pussy you don't know that. Note the anti-porn arguments against reminiscent of Third.
i much prefer masturbating to still photos of fully clothed women.
The dark truth: masturbation will only distract you from the suffering near essential to human life. (Love Nietzsche!)
but remember that it's speculated that george floyd did a porno by nazis who use that as a slur against him "vaginas are degenerate" is their cry. that's the real reason right-wingers are against porn and call sex with women degenerate,
This is just plain ridiculous. Whoever wrote this can't be serious.
Here's my test for Therefore I Am: define gender parody as Butler describes it in Gender Trouble. Show us you're serious.