Judith Butler Quotes About Masculinity

Quotes about: Masculinity

• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality

  "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

• When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.

  Judith Butler

  Confused, Heterosexuality, Dynamics

  Source: ilga.org

• If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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