A good physicist or chemist can usually explain in reasonably simple words to a layman what even a very complicated equation means and what it describes. Can you explain than gibberish to a layman without it reducing to triviality?
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What Butler means by "performativity" goes quite a bit deeper than "Well when I'm feeling good I wear my pink hat and that lets people know I'm in a pink-hat kind of mood" Specifically, she talks a lot about the divide between the "material" and "performative" is fragile
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I.e. what certain people (TERFs) want to do is say "Well there's some stuff about gender identity that's just fake, like wearing pants vs. skirts, but the difference between having a dick or a vagina is *physical* and that's REAL" And she's like "Not so fast"
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