Anti-Trans Ideology Threatens All Of Our Freedoms | Judith Butler Meets Ash Sarkar

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Күн бұрын

For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world's most cited academics, Judith Butler.
Their new book, 'Who’s Afraid of Gender' charts how a transphobic moral panic morphed into an all-our war on so-called ‘gender ideology’.
Together, Ash and Judith explore how Britain became TERF island, the limits of self-identification, and what really defines a woman.
00:00 Intro
02:27 What is a Woman?
07:19 What’s the Deal with UK Transphobia?
15:51 Aren’t Transphobes Just Defending Vulnerable Women?
25:03 Self Identification
37:42 Does Self ID Apply to Race?
44:03 What About our Aging Populations?
47:24 Gender Ideology and Fascism
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@harveyyoung3423
@harveyyoung3423 3 ай бұрын
I started watching this interview live with my Mum and Dad at their house yesterday. We didn't get to far into it, not because it is complicated, with many moving parts and different levels, which it is, and which it has, but because it kicked off a long discussion after only a several minutes in. They have invited me back over today to watch some more, and i get a free home cooked dinner too. So very interesting, socially consequential, and with a high positive utility margin for me, so far.
@Fredmayve
@Fredmayve 3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile Britain is doing genocide in Gaza
@atee876
@atee876 3 ай бұрын
a free dinner cooked by a loving parent is not to be sniffed at! lucky you! ;)
@harveyyoung3423
@harveyyoung3423 3 ай бұрын
@@atee876 its true and I got two of 'em.
@harveyyoung3423
@harveyyoung3423 3 ай бұрын
I still haven' got any further though the interview. But an odd thing is, my feminist colleague doing post grad stuff after finishing, went from theory to praxis, and gave a me a pile of her feminists texts to add to my home library between my epistemology and logic sections. They are fairly recent general texts and collections of essays mostly. The thing is, Judith Butler is not even in most of them, and is only a couple of quotes in the one that mentions bodies. I mean I'm all for privileging margins, but really?
@harveyyoung3423
@harveyyoung3423 3 ай бұрын
So i read all i have of Judith Butler in books in five minutes. Thing is i went full Butlerian for some years from late 2000's though to early 2010s. All the EGS seminars and lectures some I watched several times, and many other lectures too. So right now I thought I'd have a go at performing Butler and then return to this interview and write about it after some praxis and experience. Just don't tell my friends on the right and my conservative colleagues. You can assess this already in comments on a Konstantin Kisin talk at Centre for Independent Study 2 weeks ago. For praxis reasons I choose to omit any reference to Butler, until I've drawn them in.
@McMatt86
@McMatt86 6 күн бұрын
Absolutely fantastic. I didn't think ive ever just watched a 56 min video in one go - was great to hear Judith's thoughts and explanation on this current pile on to trans rights. Just sad that people are not respectful of trans experiences especially in some of these comments. I hope this video at least makes one person question their perception of trans experiences and reflects.
@nickthepostpunk5766
@nickthepostpunk5766 3 күн бұрын
Not fantastic at all! Butler in the first section of the video is confused. Feminists historically have of course tried to expand the acceptable boundaries of what it was to be a woman: they did so by aiming to expand upon the acceptable forms of behaviour etc that BIOLOGICAL FEMALES were allowed to display. Removing gender stereotypes and saying a biological male can be a woman are not conceptually equivalent, because (a) removing stereotypes society applies to biological females does not remove a necessary condition for someone to be a woman: namely, that they be biologically female, but (b) saying a biological male can be a woman is an attempt to remove, or sweep under the carpet, a necessary condition for a person to be a woman: namely, it is an attempt to say a woman does not have to be a biological female. I think it is far more accurate and reasonable to say that trans women are pushing the acceptable boundaries for what it is to be a man (and good for them!), rather, than, as Butler claims, trans women representing the expanding of acceptable boundaries of what it is to be a woman.
@youcel92
@youcel92 17 сағат бұрын
@@nickthepostpunk5766 _trans women are pushing the acceptable boundaries for what it is to be a man (and good for them!)_ What a great thought! I'll be using it, thank you for that.
@tangimeme
@tangimeme 3 ай бұрын
"Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight" is such an iconic line and the perfect way to express that sentiment 😂
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
Means nothing
@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559
@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 Ай бұрын
No, trans activists are bringing lies to a war on the truth.
@RADMIL-ro1rl
@RADMIL-ro1rl 2 ай бұрын
Only through a return to a class based politics which fights for universal freedom and global solidarity can current problems, including otherness, be solved.
@andretorres8452
@andretorres8452 Ай бұрын
Well said
@alphajackal6648
@alphajackal6648 7 күн бұрын
I find a purely Marxist approach lacking in intersectionality - As if illustrating it, it has been a recurring problem with revolutionary politics that it often turns into a lot of straight cis white men talking about what liberation looks like for both themselves and everyone else. Class politics alone fails to encapsulate all possible intersections of oppression, likely because certain forms of oppression predate the advent of class politics, and even within otherwise solid class movements you can find misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc.
@aefun5761
@aefun5761 3 ай бұрын
"Are we bringing vibes to a gunfight" :) Ash is well on form, brilliant.
@UXDlozi
@UXDlozi 3 ай бұрын
i loved that lol
@cadenza3210
@cadenza3210 3 ай бұрын
I'm gonna steal that.
@uncoiledfish2561
@uncoiledfish2561 3 ай бұрын
What does it mean?
@zacharybosley1935
@zacharybosley1935 3 ай бұрын
@@uncoiledfish2561 "are we focused so much on feelings and ideas that we are unequipped to deal with the material consequences of transphobia?"
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
@alioxinfree I thought they were all obsessed with "passing" and claiming no one notices they are there.... now its visibility. Nothing makes sense with you people 😂
@michingmallecho5143
@michingmallecho5143 3 ай бұрын
You ask excellent questions. :)
@jelef001
@jelef001 20 күн бұрын
Ash did amazing! I would have been too in awe to speak!
@Grimeowldi
@Grimeowldi 2 ай бұрын
I appreciate this interview. It was nice to listen to. Unscripted academics can be a little bit difficult to follow for someone that's never been in that community but I thought everyone did a fantastic job.
@DavidBagshaw
@DavidBagshaw 14 күн бұрын
Well put, it turns out that the question 'what is a woman' does actually require some thought - like the question of the meaning of life, or what is a god, for example.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
​@@DavidBagshawExcept that philosophers on those questions actually arrived at an answer that it was possible to agree or disagree with.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
It's not because it's unscripted or because she's an academic. It's because she isn't trying to be comprehensible or else would too easily see through the shells of nothing that are her ideas.
@majestic.feminine
@majestic.feminine 26 күн бұрын
A wonderfully intellectual & high vibe discussion ✨👀 What a breath of fresh air 😊
@charllandsberg
@charllandsberg 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Both of you so much
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
4:50 Woman is the subject of each of her sentences for a good minute yet she's only laying the groundwork for a definition which she never arrives at. How is this philosophy? It is deliberate obfuscation of terms.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
43:57 No, Judith, that run-on sentence constructed to confound and escape the corner you backed into does not answer the question. I can't believe people seriously think she's a philosopher.
@yaznin2474
@yaznin2474 3 ай бұрын
Great interview. Thank you Ash for always asking the right questions. Never really heard Judith Butler speak before - only knew their name from all the tansphobia panic, great to see they were not snide or cruel to anyone and answered every question with intelligence. Look forward to reading their book.
@Ftjxmmged
@Ftjxmmged 3 ай бұрын
The problem is that even when we are polite, transphobes will spin it any way they can unless peoppe take the time to watch videos like this, and most right wingers don't watch this channel unfortunately, because it'd pretty leftist
@maverickspirit208
@maverickspirit208 3 ай бұрын
I came here to take a deeper look into pro trans trans movement and I listened for 19 minutes and 44 seconds, and Butler hasn't directly answered a single question! Everything that comes out of her mouth is twisted.
@TheSlinq
@TheSlinq 3 ай бұрын
There is no logic to the pro-trans movement, in fact when faced with logic it withers up and dies.
@urbansetter1
@urbansetter1 2 ай бұрын
The entire movement is twisted
@Gingerblaze
@Gingerblaze 2 ай бұрын
@@urbansetter1 thats the entire point of the theory. Sometimes also called "sophistry"
@0olong
@0olong 2 ай бұрын
The problem here is that some things are quite complicated, you see
@jamakaya1332
@jamakaya1332 2 ай бұрын
To post-modern thinkers, everything -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- is relative.
@achipinthesugar
@achipinthesugar 2 ай бұрын
Straw maaaaannnnnnnnnn. Butler has made no attempt to understand her opponents. That's a bummer, as she's quite engaging and smart.
@user-tf4vt9jh1c
@user-tf4vt9jh1c 3 ай бұрын
Thank you Ash, fantastic to see such in-depth discussion around freedoms 🤩 I love Judith Butler & Ash was a perfect interviewer 🫶🏽
@juliejoy4887
@juliejoy4887 2 ай бұрын
It's not freedom, it's slavery. The first step, preparation. If you don't see it, I am very sorry.
@farmpunk_dan
@farmpunk_dan 23 күн бұрын
Reading these comments as a gender nonconforming individual… well, I wish I had not. Very sad that people can’t see past the tiny box that says M or F they were given at birth.
@DavidBagshaw
@DavidBagshaw 14 күн бұрын
It's a horrifying pile-on, several commentors admit they did not watch the video.
@emlmm88
@emlmm88 8 күн бұрын
It is response of the serfs to a criticism of feudalism. They are still beholden to the framework and the means of their own subjugation.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
​@@DavidBagshaw I did watch it. I want my 53 minutes back. What absolute drivel.
@sagetenshi
@sagetenshi Ай бұрын
This interview is just legendary, I've come back to it so many times since it was uploaded. Ash's questions are all super pointed questions which, had they been asked by a conservative 'gender ideology critical' person, would have all been framed as 'gotchas', but because they were asked in good faith they led to some super interesting conversations that really dug into the core of Butler's work. Ash knocked this one out of the park, loved it.
@ezequiel2527
@ezequiel2527 3 ай бұрын
It’s interesting how many times reinforcement of societal gender norms was confirmed in this conversation.
@philsanders9625
@philsanders9625 3 ай бұрын
It's accessible. And everyone needs a jumping off point that is grounded in their reality. I myself appreciated some simple anchors. Given at the end you reflect on it, but the fight isn't for ground zero on social identity. Its about taking ground back from ignorance. You don't teach math with algebra. You start with the numbers.
@bobbsurname3140
@bobbsurname3140 3 ай бұрын
​@@philsanders9625Then why not start with biological reality rather than the seemingly idosyncratic social norms that have developed over the course of millenia? Then you might learn why those social norms exist in the first place, and thereby learn why it's idiotic to use them as a proxy for becoming the opposite sex.
@amyaplomb666
@amyaplomb666 2 ай бұрын
@@philsanders9625 and when talking about gender and sex stereotypes, you start with the immutable nature of sex. A transwoman is only a transwoman because they are a male sexed person.
@japanesetoenglish
@japanesetoenglish 3 ай бұрын
The answer to the question about race seems very evasive. Clearly the question threatens the whole ontology of Butler's worldview, so it is set aside with a historical argument rather than a philosophical one.
@farmpunk_dan
@farmpunk_dan 23 күн бұрын
It doesn’t, which is fairly obvious. Sounds like you just haven’t thought about this topic very much.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
​@@farmpunk_danLol. Produce arguments or get lost, sycophant.
@datteldiskussion4992
@datteldiskussion4992 3 күн бұрын
You got it!
@Bianca-pw5cn
@Bianca-pw5cn 3 ай бұрын
All oppression is connected, animals also deserve liberation 🐣
@reaceness
@reaceness 3 ай бұрын
A squirrel lives in my garden rent-free.
@chibu3212
@chibu3212 3 ай бұрын
Making all oppression to be connected eliminates the significance between them.
@sophiepooks2174
@sophiepooks2174 3 ай бұрын
@@chibu3212 What significance? That our capitalist imperialist or any authoritarian dictatorship depends on oppression as a feature of that system continuing?
@incurableromantic4006
@incurableromantic4006 3 ай бұрын
But what *is* an animal?
@Trollika_Devi
@Trollika_Devi 3 ай бұрын
@@incurableromantic4006 A creature that identifies as one is an animal. Oh wait ....
@eliashe1797
@eliashe1797 2 ай бұрын
Reclaim feminism: this may go beyond butler's point, but to my mind along with terfs there are issues with the 'online feministas'; these folks seem to lack any sense of being self critical, oft lack in understanding that there are actually different views within feminism that don't always agree, and tend far more heavily towards the misandrist bent.
@BeeThorough
@BeeThorough 3 ай бұрын
Bless you Ash Sarkar for your advocacy and integrity. And big love to Judith Butler too of course! I think their insights around gender are getting sharper every time they speak.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
Everyone else stopped being interested in gender stereotypes in about 1950 but Judith's still trying to put us in little boxes
@BeeThorough
@BeeThorough 3 ай бұрын
@@ayeright320 That seems like such a strange perspective to me. Do you have a concrete example of Butler’s gender stereotyping?
@alst4817
@alst4817 2 ай бұрын
@@BeeThorough C'mon you only have to go about 5 mins through the interview to get to the first example. That's just being lazy...
@BeeThorough
@BeeThorough 2 ай бұрын
@@alst4817 Can you be more specific? Clearly I wasn’t watching closely enough.
@casselskeep
@casselskeep 2 ай бұрын
5:26 Femininsts keeping the question open - I dont think femininsts ever debated what a women was? At least not in the main stream. There was an understanding that women exist and the question was around what is their role and what are their limits in society? with the intension of expanding that range. With respect to broadened the category they ask "why stop here?" The response is "why not stop here?" Every category must have a limit. An all encompasing category has no meaning. The the question really is where is the end point for that category?
@DavidBagshaw
@DavidBagshaw 14 күн бұрын
I missed the part where Judith wanted to have only one category for...everything? It would make things difficult to discuss.
@davidblackwell614
@davidblackwell614 Ай бұрын
Phenomenal content; oh the grounded wisdom!
@janearmstrong7945
@janearmstrong7945 3 ай бұрын
like a surprising number of middle-aged alternative people, I wasn't particularly open to new ideas on gender. My children told me just to sit down and watch a bit of Judith and maybe eat a biscuit. Over time, I was able to understand a little better. I would really recommend Judith Butler and Biscuits approach, rather than massively freaking out and radicalising yourself on Twitter because a thing has happened that you don't understand.
@anfearaerach
@anfearaerach 3 ай бұрын
Thank you Jane, for being considerate :) I think that's a good approach, I think that's what my parents did as well after I came out
@PattisKarriereKarten
@PattisKarriereKarten 3 ай бұрын
Obviously you don’t understand basic biology. Please study what exactly Postmodernism is. Then you will understand what reality bending Butler does.
@martybyrnemusic
@martybyrnemusic 3 ай бұрын
@@PattisKarriereKarten We're all biology experts here, didn't you know? Elon has now insisted that all Blue Tick Twitter Accounts prove their expertise in biology and pass an ELON MANDATED BIOLOGY TEST and produce an inexpensive CERTIFICATE before being allowed to scream abuse at trans people!
@user-uh5cf6yp3q
@user-uh5cf6yp3q 3 ай бұрын
That's an interesting way to characterise feminists objecting to, for example, convicted rapists in women's prisons. They are being hysterical, whereas you are, quite reasonably, outsourcing your politics to your children. And there are only people, by the way. There isn't an "alternative" to that.
@abcdeshole
@abcdeshole 3 ай бұрын
Glad you understood something from her explanation of what a woman is, other than “nothing.”
@zeliagonzales9422
@zeliagonzales9422 3 ай бұрын
Also in response to the engaging population - the conversation can move from reproduction to economic reorganizing. The aging population calls capitalism into question, not reproduction or falling birth rates. As Judith said, the earth could handle less of humans.
@zeliagonzales9422
@zeliagonzales9422 3 ай бұрын
Aging*
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
however, if we are to ever transition to a society based on allocation to those in need, we certainly have to consider intergenerational population proportionality, regardless of our technological level. this does not necessitate patriarchal fixation with birth rates however-we just need a certain continuity (ie no booms nor busts)
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
Within a couple of minutes of starting this she makes a comment about "gender non conforming uncle" - that can only mean something if she had a stereotype in mind. Everything she talks about is with reference to stereotypes - that's all gender is a collection or old fashioned stereotypes.
@milascave2
@milascave2 2 ай бұрын
How so? Is gender-nonconforming uncle a stereotype? I've never heard it.
@Qq-xs1fz
@Qq-xs1fz 2 ай бұрын
And trans ideology is strengthening those stereotypes.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
​@@milascave2What is he not conforming with?
@urbansetter1
@urbansetter1 2 ай бұрын
​@@Qq-xs1fzfor sure. Tomboys are now trans. It has taken us back to the 60s
@charlesdaubner1017
@charlesdaubner1017 2 ай бұрын
@@milascave2 A gay uncle (an effeminate gay uncle;. not complicated at all; obvious)
@Swagkonge
@Swagkonge 3 ай бұрын
Was so glad I got to attend this, Judith was great and I got to ask them a Q at the end - thanks for hosting :-)
@LimeyRedneck
@LimeyRedneck 3 ай бұрын
I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get to hear any audience questions 😔 Also, jealous! 😁
@martybyrnemusic
@martybyrnemusic 3 ай бұрын
@alioxinfree Bit of a shame about the mic feedback in this, huh? I didn't want to moan about it, but come on, it's Judith Butler! Get the tech shit together!
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
She talks absolute nonsense that would fall apart on the first challenge. No way she is taking questions
@EliasJWhite
@EliasJWhite 2 ай бұрын
@@ayeright320 They did though.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
​@@EliasJWhite No one was listening. She should be in jail for the poison she's spread.
@GingerDrums
@GingerDrums 2 ай бұрын
Please invite some educated pushback, as the debate is not simply "Butler is correct on gender".
@poochy
@poochy Ай бұрын
Is the debate, then, if transgender people exist? Your opportunity for “educated pushback” was this comment section I guess
@kimberleylouiseprance445
@kimberleylouiseprance445 Ай бұрын
And what is 'educated pushback'?
@screenmonkey
@screenmonkey 28 күн бұрын
@@kimberleylouiseprance445 a counter point argument.
@DavidBagshaw
@DavidBagshaw 14 күн бұрын
This is an interview, not a debate. We can listen, then decide for ourselves whether "Butler is correct".
@ClitmasterDave
@ClitmasterDave 3 ай бұрын
Its great when you click newest on comments, i wonder when KZfaq will do away with that like the dislike to give a false representation of popular public opinion.
@v_6302
@v_6302 3 ай бұрын
The newest comments also include people whos comments are later deleted because: Unwanted commercial content or spam Pornography or sexually explicit material Child abuse Hate speech or graphic violence Promotes terrorism Harassment or bullying Suicide or self injury Misinformation Legal issue Sure thats public opinion, but also extremist views, neutral people comment less, so get a bias. There is a extension for the browser called "Return KZfaq Dislikes". I may not agree with you on things but i still want a objective and scientific view.
@poochy
@poochy Ай бұрын
KZfaq should change to suit your preferences, but the meaning of the adjective transgender is a change you can’t make in your mind?
@l-y-d-s
@l-y-d-s 3 ай бұрын
I grew up never being told what it "means" to be a man or a woman, my parents are feminists. I can't help but think that religion plays a large role in people holding onto gender roles.
@alvodin6197
@alvodin6197 3 ай бұрын
But even if you weren't "told" directly, society tells us the way things are. Most learning is aquired, not instructed, such as language. You need to know that bigots, such as Richard Dawkins, also don't like transgendered and queer people. Religion has a par, but being conservative is more of a factorx and that doesn't necessarily equate religion, especially if you look outside the US. Sorry, I thought I had to add that, just saying are implicit values that we learn or aquire in society without having lessons on it.
@kevinjohnson9533
@kevinjohnson9533 3 ай бұрын
Yes, because religion can be an expression not of spirituality but of authority. God the father, is the chief guy in charge and he must be obeyed. Faith constitutes the rules that lay down fundamental rules of being that cannot be contravened.
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv 3 ай бұрын
​@@alvodin6197I bet you use the word 'bigot' a lot. Dawkins is a liberal. He's also a scientist.
@happinesstan
@happinesstan 3 ай бұрын
@@kevinjohnson9533 religion is only ever an expression of authority. Faith is different thing altogether
@glasp-q8n
@glasp-q8n 3 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv He's also been roundly condemned for anti-semitism, Islamaphobia, and promoting classist eugenic ideology - as well as several pseudo-scientific ideas.
@nickthepostpunk5766
@nickthepostpunk5766 3 күн бұрын
Given the concern Ash and Butler expressed for 'inclusivity' I now look forward to Novara Media interviewing some on the ‘gender critical’ side of this issue. Oh, my mistake …
@ComradeCatpurrnicus
@ComradeCatpurrnicus Күн бұрын
Judith Butler is spot on with so much, especially with the trans women in prison statements.
@eliasv.2910
@eliasv.2910 3 ай бұрын
Congrats Ash that was a great interview!
@lozzybozzy234
@lozzybozzy234 3 ай бұрын
A great discussion. I do feel the question about whether self ID applied to race wasn't satisfactorily answered though. The reality at the moment is that there are very few examples of people wishing to identify as a different race as compared to gender. But I imagine this was the case with gender in the past. How do we know the feeling of being a different race isn't currently being suppressed, and would we accept it in the future if the numbers identifying as a different race increased?
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
You give that a go and see how it works out for you
@yamiyugi2894
@yamiyugi2894 2 ай бұрын
They'll never accept that
@poochy
@poochy Ай бұрын
Does it have a basis in psychology? Is there a history there? We could entertain any number of wild hypotheticals, I’m just not sure it’s helpful or honest
@kimberleylouiseprance445
@kimberleylouiseprance445 Ай бұрын
That is because there is a difference between race and gender, for race that is decided by the genetics of your ancestors and parents, for gender, all foetus start as male and it is inside the womb that hormones and androgens affect the foetus and dictate the physical birth sex and psychological birth gender of a child.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 Ай бұрын
​​​​@@kimberleylouiseprance445What nonsense?! Your fathers sperm either carried a Y chromosome or it didn't determining your sex at conception. It is in every cell in your body and can't be changed. There is no proof whatsoever that anyone has a gender identity of any sort. There is a far simpler explanation for sex that the comparatively woolly concept of race.
@hawaii_hardware
@hawaii_hardware 2 ай бұрын
The protracted bloviation is strong with Judith
@ImTheCitizenInsane
@ImTheCitizenInsane 3 ай бұрын
Fantastic interview but I don't understand why the sound is so bad, always at the limit of the larsen. Was there no sound tech?
@markhla427
@markhla427 3 ай бұрын
Good questions Ash, but i would like to have probed into the distinction between what someone "is" amd what someone "does". I think this is fundamental in this discussion, and without clarification it causes a circular argument e.g. "Are you a woman?" This is an 'is' question for some and a 'does' question for others.
@LucianWheelerLPW
@LucianWheelerLPW 3 ай бұрын
I think one of the points made in Judith's book, Gender Trouble, is that someone's gender is the result of repeated gendered acts (hair, clothes, speech etc). So in a way it equates what people are and what they do. A bit of a chicken and egg question
@fifidownunda
@fifidownunda 3 ай бұрын
Judith Butler's views on gender are part of the reason why we are in a mess as a society today.
@itcouldbelupus2842
@itcouldbelupus2842 3 ай бұрын
No they aren't. Gender nonconformity is always used as a scapegoat when society is a mess, but gender nonconformity has always been a part of human nature, it's nothing new. You're just falling for tired old propaganda.
@marcelusdarcy
@marcelusdarcy 3 ай бұрын
I think you missed the point where she said that that's the narrative that is being pushed so that you blame other struggling people for low pay and shitty living conditions
@chrisharvey7461
@chrisharvey7461 3 ай бұрын
lol because society's always been neat and tidy
@Inquiringmind0
@Inquiringmind0 3 ай бұрын
@@chrisharvey7461 It wasn't neat or tidy but it was never this absurd with so much cultural degeneration.
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
@@Inquiringmind0 “cultural degeneration”. lmao are you lost
@nizzie16
@nizzie16 3 ай бұрын
Listening to Butler is always a treat, but when the interviewer is super excited and having a great time, it’s even better!
@mikiafu
@mikiafu 3 ай бұрын
You don't like your pope being challenged?
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
You need to get out more
@DumpsterFlower
@DumpsterFlower 3 ай бұрын
Iconic moment: "Ash Sarkar: As you say in your book, no one person or class can own a gender category... Judith Butler: [interrupting] Well Beyoncé does" Who'd have thought Judith Butler would out-sass Ash!
@Janemas
@Janemas 3 ай бұрын
but categories are invented as it develops visually.
@charlottefawcett6614
@charlottefawcett6614 Ай бұрын
Great interview. At the part where Butler explains how generalising from one violating trans person to all is transphobia and compares it to antisemitism or racism, I wish they had used the example of a disabled person being at risk from abuse from an able person, because then a more valid comparison can be made imo. Jews and black people are groups that experience marginality. There is a strong sense in which their marginality can rob them of power. The fear of gender critics is based on the power, social AND PHYSICAL, that a trans women may have especially if she has gone through testosterone based puberty. Trans women, in these cases can be much stronger than cis women, and there is a physical imbalance of power. Similarly, able people can be much more ABLE and therefore able to abuse and exploit disabled people. But it is not part of "common sense" to assume all able bodied people are exploiters, violaters and abusers, just because they are more physically able to be so, which imo demonstrates the double standard and transphobia more clearly.
@MarinaUganda
@MarinaUganda Ай бұрын
What if able people start self-id as disable? Not all trans-disabled people would abuse disabled people, but there is a door open.
@Staenhus
@Staenhus Ай бұрын
Yes! There is also a strong link between the historical view of disabled people not being "real humans" and today's argument about trans people not being "real X", based on physical and genetic characteristics. The arguments used against both groups are very similar.
@vis7139
@vis7139 23 күн бұрын
​@@MarinaUganda There's a difference there - nobody is going to self-id as disabled, unless they are hypochondriacs, in which case they do have a real medical issue that could be classed as disabled. I do have a test for you on self-ID. I mean this in good faith, I'm not having a go at you. If you think self-id is a small decision, you can test it. Dress up as the opposite gender and walk out into the street. See how awkward and embarrassed you feel, even before anyone has even spoken to you. Honestly, try it. That's the feeling of not being comfortable in your body. That's the feeling that makes you want to wear clothes that match your life. Give it a go and see what it's like for yourself.
@zoe_blackmore
@zoe_blackmore 3 ай бұрын
This such an excellent & accessible interview/conversation full of commonsense, intelligence and sprinkled with wonderful humour. Definately a delight.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
Commonsense?? What is a woman - waffle waffle waffle nonsense.... Still no answer....
@cubemerula5264
@cubemerula5264 Ай бұрын
Now, an exercise for your mind - imagine how horrible is the definition of freedom if said freedom is under a threat if you threaten the freedom of delusion?
@sebbosebbo9794
@sebbosebbo9794 Ай бұрын
thats exactly the point.... what is your reality can I question your status..?!
@cubemerula5264
@cubemerula5264 Ай бұрын
@@sebbosebbo9794 You can and should question everything. My status is single. Why? You wanna take me out for dinner?
@leerobson6809
@leerobson6809 3 ай бұрын
What a great conversation. Challenging, informative inspirational and importantly a lot of fun too! Well done Ash and Judith. ✊🏼
@tracey6258
@tracey6258 2 ай бұрын
I'd love Ash to interview Helen Joyce or better still a conversation between Butler and Joyce.
@pinwheelart2825
@pinwheelart2825 2 ай бұрын
Yes, please! 😂
@RomeoGrrl
@RomeoGrrl 2 ай бұрын
They don’t dare, it would result in Butler looking even more ridiculous than she is on her own.
@Zarqaa_
@Zarqaa_ 2 ай бұрын
No not Joyce. I think Kathleen Stock is a better debater.
@benp4877
@benp4877 2 ай бұрын
Yep
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch 2 ай бұрын
no? we do not debate with fascists.
@riskychanges6768
@riskychanges6768 2 ай бұрын
I am waiting for an UFO, I hope it brings me in an other world.
@DavidBagshaw
@DavidBagshaw 14 күн бұрын
Everyone wants this for you too.
@mattwa33186
@mattwa33186 3 ай бұрын
I tried. I really tried.
@antonyshadowbanned
@antonyshadowbanned 2 ай бұрын
😅😂
@noklarok
@noklarok 2 ай бұрын
i lasted 10 seconds
@atlas_cass
@atlas_cass Ай бұрын
@@noklarok Can't handle the free marketplace of ideas?
@bigplanslittledrive4791
@bigplanslittledrive4791 3 ай бұрын
I love how Judith asks for statistics for the risk of having trans women in women’s jail, but gets to just infer what would happen if a trans woman is in a man’s jail “we all know what would happen”. You showed your inconsistency but get to breeze right past it.
@aidananstey9848
@aidananstey9848 2 ай бұрын
They have protection wings for vulnerable or at risk inmates, men's prisons aren't safe for many men, do they all get to go to the women's prison too? Funny you NEVER hear of Transmen going into men's prisons. It is the most bizarre thing to have feminists advocating for men over actual women.
@jamakaya1332
@jamakaya1332 2 ай бұрын
She mouths contradictions continually and seems oblivious. No intellectual rigor to her thinking at all.
@Crystalgate
@Crystalgate 2 ай бұрын
The risk of having trans women in women's prison is lower for women than the risk for trans men if they are in men's prison, but that's just because of numbers. With transwomen in women's prison, we have a low number of transwomen compared to women while with transmen at men's prison, we would have a high number of men compared to a low number of transmen. Basically, a rabbit is in less danger if there are 100 rabbits and 1 fox in a forest than if there are 1 rabbit and 100 foxes. That does not remove the danger however, it just means it's lower than it could have been.
@Kirsty-tb4qp
@Kirsty-tb4qp Ай бұрын
The difference is that there is statistics for sexual assault against Trans woman in mens prison.
@ramdomcomentxqa7346
@ramdomcomentxqa7346 3 ай бұрын
Le preguntan que es una mujer y va al significado estetico para justificar que es cualquier cosa menos un significado biologico, es una tonteria. Entonces cualquier palabra debe de significar cualquier cosa que sentido tiene un idioma?. Pura doctrina dogmática.
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
words have different connotations, and in that specific example it wasnt even about the word “woman” but rather the meaning of the entire sentence “what is a woman?”
@danielpearson2449
@danielpearson2449 3 ай бұрын
I’m sorry, what was the Israeli comment at 45:55????
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
oh no boohoo u mad bro
@kattekongen
@kattekongen 2 ай бұрын
Women is on the one hand a biological thing related to chromosomes, anatomy and hormones. On the other hand there is "gender identity", which is kind of whatever. Why do we always have to mix it up?
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch 2 ай бұрын
the same way a platypus lays eggs
@jamakaya1332
@jamakaya1332 2 ай бұрын
Not everyone mixes it up. It serves the interests of gender ideology.
@ComradeCatpurrnicus
@ComradeCatpurrnicus Күн бұрын
Great conversation
@climaksy1659
@climaksy1659 3 ай бұрын
"I wouldn't say i buy this, lets just say i'm window shopping, and right now theres a half price sale on weird."
@wingtipzzz
@wingtipzzz 3 ай бұрын
You are polite. I'm with you.
@jeremyhall2727
@jeremyhall2727 3 ай бұрын
🤨.. ok
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
irrelevant
@LunaRose1312
@LunaRose1312 3 ай бұрын
Bravo ash, brilliant interview
@thehangedwoman8893
@thehangedwoman8893 27 күн бұрын
The oppressed always turn in to the oppressors. Break the cycle.
@Charrison9918
@Charrison9918 2 ай бұрын
13:42 one is not assigned a sex at birth.
@Shalanaya
@Shalanaya 2 ай бұрын
Yes they literally are, definition of sex is purely arbitrary, changing from country to country throughout the history, remember sex has been proven to be a spectrum and diversity with high end peaks on both sides. Trans women were born women, their innate gender identity developed during the 2nd trimester is what defines their sex just as much.
@Charrison9918
@Charrison9918 2 ай бұрын
@@Shalanayasex is either female or male. No spectrum. How someone feels is subjective and sex is objective thus sex is observed at birth.
@sodaaccount
@sodaaccount 2 ай бұрын
@@Charrison9918they observe genitalia at birth, not sex…
@Charrison9918
@Charrison9918 2 ай бұрын
@@sodaaccount​​⁠they are typically related unless intersex .
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
​@@Shalanaya you realize that every definition is arbitrary right?
@DavidJosephism
@DavidJosephism 2 ай бұрын
If Butler is in favour of unlimited migration then Butler is an unwitting supporter of the economic neoliberalism Butler affects to despise.
@biometronome7010
@biometronome7010 3 ай бұрын
What do we do about purely physiological definitions that have been named "male" "female" and "intersex"? Is it good to mix them with "gender" which is a social construct? Like, "race" is a social construct, but the amount of melanin in one's skin is a measurable fact
@o_o8203
@o_o8203 3 ай бұрын
Because the human neuropsychology has an extremely difficult time dealing with nuance
@Muzikman127
@Muzikman127 3 ай бұрын
In a way I think you've partially answered your own question, we are able to distinguish concepts like "fair/dark/light/brown etc. skinned" from concepts like "white"/"black"/"South Asian"/"Puerto Rican"/"Malay" etc. etc. etc. even though there is obviously some relationship between them, often a fairly strong one, but not at all 1 to 1, and it's obvious that the latter are socially defined categories. Isn't that basically how it is with gender & sex characteristics too?
@Muzikman127
@Muzikman127 3 ай бұрын
Actually, having thought about it more, I think my previous comment is a real oversimplification lol. Never mind 🙃
@Muzikman127
@Muzikman127 3 ай бұрын
Like the above comment is fine as a first pass, and probably a useful way to outline things and draw distinctions, but actually yeah it falls apart a bit under too much scrutiny. Like sex itself is also to an extent a constructed category not just a clear essential/natural one. And words like "white" and "black" sometimes clearly describe social categories, other times more just describe a phenotype, and other times the distinction isn't made, or clear. Just like with sex vis-a-vis gender. I guess, in conclusion, I don't really know how taxonomizing this stuff really works idk ask someone smarter? Philosophy make brain tired...
@Smarterthanyew
@Smarterthanyew 3 ай бұрын
​​@@Muzikman127 you can't just say sex is to an extent a constructed category without explaining why. Because, that's kind of the crux of the matter.
@vilmarazauskiene1172
@vilmarazauskiene1172 2 ай бұрын
'Social masculinity is produced in good ways'. Ok, kind of agree. But what's patriarchy then?
@corinnapetry65
@corinnapetry65 3 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for having this guest on. What an enlightening discussion.
@hengis73
@hengis73 3 ай бұрын
One of the best interviews with Judith I have seen. She is comfortable and able to explain the broader way of thinking, not have to defend or attack an arguement
@umamicashflow1809
@umamicashflow1809 3 ай бұрын
She sneers that her opponents haven't done their homework about what they're criticizing but then demonstrates she has no idea about the substance of their criticisms. Unbecoming and sloppy.
@user-uh5cf6yp3q
@user-uh5cf6yp3q 3 ай бұрын
When have you ever seen her defend an argument in a situation where her nonsense is actually challenged?
@HughEMC
@HughEMC 3 ай бұрын
Judith is the epitome of sophistry
@raincadeify
@raincadeify 3 ай бұрын
@@umamicashflow1809 "She sneers"? Really? You might be projecting.
@umamicashflow1809
@umamicashflow1809 3 ай бұрын
​@@raincadeify "Sneers" was used metaphorically to indicate the arrogance of the behavior that was the subject of my comment. Funny how you completely ignored its substance to nitpick its vocabulary. Very Butlerian.
@goldfishbowl42
@goldfishbowl42 3 ай бұрын
Really great to see this discussion in detail, I think the nuance is whats missing from this subject. On the section on self id, it sounds like shes saying everyones definition of gender terms are unique and personal to them? Essentially there are 8 billion internal definitions of the terms man or woman in the world? If so, aren't we all misgendering everyone every time we gender anyone, as we can't mean the same thing as they think internally? E.g. when I call someone a man how do they know my definition of that word means the same as their definition of the word?
@reggiperry1366
@reggiperry1366 3 ай бұрын
i noticed that person mentioned catholic church and on other religon does every other religon agree with trans people
@alicemilne1444
@alicemilne1444 3 ай бұрын
Most religions don't agree with trans people.
@AnttiJumppainen
@AnttiJumppainen Ай бұрын
Thank you. 🌹🌹
@KitschKiss-pi8wp
@KitschKiss-pi8wp 3 ай бұрын
This woman's brain is so addled. Gender simply identifies a human being's sex. It has nothing to do with socially perceived activities. They have had to change the entire language used in order to make a case for quite frankly, nothing. Male and Female is all that is relevant
@poochy
@poochy Ай бұрын
Transgender people also exist. It’s not “addled” to consider how to respectfully interact with those humans 😰
@poochy
@poochy Ай бұрын
Transgender people also exist. It isn’t “addled” to consider how to respectfully interact with those humans 😰
@TheYasmineFlower
@TheYasmineFlower 2 ай бұрын
Everyone always asks "What is a woman" but no one ever asks "How is a woman".
@doroiswatchingyou
@doroiswatchingyou 3 ай бұрын
this was a delight!
@tommarsden4510
@tommarsden4510 2 ай бұрын
It appears that the answer to any question she is asked no matter what can be summarised as "well its complicated". Then come the usual buy whay ifs and the straw manning of arguments that criticise ideas of gender whilst providing no real evidence to back up odeas of gender.. i appreciate the interviewer tried tonget judith to answer something in a clear way but each time was greeted with a diatribe of wishy washy meaningless answers.
@sodaaccount
@sodaaccount 2 ай бұрын
Are you having a stroke?
@abcdeshole
@abcdeshole 3 ай бұрын
17:33 is where I stopped listening, with Butler actually claiming that we terves recommend that transwomen be sexually violated, after a good ten minutes of wind to the effect that woman is a category without boundaries, with everything and nothing inside it. This particular boomer is the platonic ideal of academic insanity. Her dishonesty about the opposing side is insulting and not worth listening to behind this point.
@CatrinaDaimonLee
@CatrinaDaimonLee 3 ай бұрын
one terf, two terves?
@v_6302
@v_6302 3 ай бұрын
Well by forcing them to go in the bathroom that matches their sex instead of their gender, you are literally forcing woman into men-toilets etc. Wich often leads to sexual violation. One thing for the terfs (not terves): What about trans men? They are now forced to be in womens spaces where they also dont want to be. Yes sexual assault is a lesser problem, but still you will whine. And why? Because its not about that.
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
@@v_6302 “Well by forcing them to go in the bathroom that matches their sex instead of their gender”. strawman. apparently no one has thought of third gender bathrooms. “What about trans men?” no one talks about trans men because they dont pose sexual-violent threat to men; why does no one realize this?
@jamakaya1332
@jamakaya1332 2 ай бұрын
To post-modernists, everything is relative; there is no stable meaning. It's a free pass to mouth nonsense.
@andymurray3620
@andymurray3620 2 ай бұрын
57 mins of question ducking & diving in every way, shape & form to avoid providing a single cohesive answer.
@juanpablojones
@juanpablojones 3 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Great interview Ash and Judith❤
@Hannibal082
@Hannibal082 3 ай бұрын
I feel like Butler didn’t really give a real concrete reason as to why Tranracialism should be ridiculed and rejected but not Transgenderism.
@Narapoia1
@Narapoia1 3 ай бұрын
There's not sufficient intellectual honesty or internal consistency in the definitions and reasoning used by the modern transgender movement for her to do that. They know there's no logical defence to limit 'identification' to gender under their ideology, but it's not acceptable to many people that accept their ideology to apply it to race. So they can't offer an internally consistent condemnation of the idea of race identification, without it also applying to gender identification, and they can't accept it as being part of their ideological framework. So when you ask the question you get waffle as an answer.
@seanshamblin1131
@seanshamblin1131 3 ай бұрын
​@@Narapoia1 Exactly. Well put.
@TheOmnitom
@TheOmnitom 2 ай бұрын
Truth, it's all a transhumanist movement
@calumlambert
@calumlambert 2 ай бұрын
​@Narapoia1 I can give you a clear answer as a trans woman. Please explain to me what hormones that I can take to become a different race? Humans on a development level have both sexes inside of them to some extent. We all start female. 50 percent of the time it develops onto male. Basically, we all have inside of us gender and sex already and it's there to be used regardless of race. Race doesn't work like that medically and a white person doesn't likely have any capacity inside of them to become Asian as they weren't born with that inside of them. There. Perfectly, scientifically answered. By the way, yes I am the one you are refusing to answer in the LBC. Where I have completely pulled apart your moral panic over us and provided zero backing for any of your wild claims. Most notably comparing our healthcare to lobtamies which I found hilariously inaccurate.
@Hannibal082
@Hannibal082 2 ай бұрын
@@calumlambert but there are no hormones you can take to become a woman, only simulate womanhood and that’s not the same thing. Scientifically the entire human race originated in Africa so why can’t a white person say he has ‘African inside of him’. Also what if a white blonde person discovers that he is 13% percent ‘Japanese’ in him, can he then claim to be transracial? Get all the surgeries on his eyes? Dye his hair? Learn Japanese? Live in Japan? Does he become Asian/Japanese? No one is a pure example of any race , to some extent you could argue that we are all inter-related , so why can’t we identify as each other’s races?
@tomb020780
@tomb020780 3 ай бұрын
That was brilliant. Lovely work, Ash x
@rnshah613
@rnshah613 3 ай бұрын
Ash really on it - great Qs
@Harrier_DuBois
@Harrier_DuBois 3 ай бұрын
Ash has such good diction. She is such a class act.
@pedromac1620
@pedromac1620 3 ай бұрын
Great conversation. Thanks.
@rexcarrulers6504
@rexcarrulers6504 3 ай бұрын
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Butler is a Sophist personified.
@sasha_something
@sasha_something 3 ай бұрын
It’s fascinating how criticism of Butler so rarely touches on anything they’ve written or said. Here: “Butler is a sophist.” Why? Dunno. Because you said so, I suppose.
@rexcarrulers6504
@rexcarrulers6504 3 ай бұрын
@@sasha_something . I find it equally fascinating, that the confirmation bias, and celebration of cognitive dissonance evoked by the words of Butler is rife.. She espouses rhetoric that is at best contradictory, and at worst disingenuous, but she remains the go to figurehead when it comes to all things transgender, so much so she has made a successful career out of it. Her 1990 book, Gender Trouble as one example, introduces the now-mainstreamed (academic) concept that gender, sex, and the “category of woman” are “fluid.” "The main conundrum faced by gender identity ideologues today (and, by proxy, women’s rights advocates), which they have refused to respond to in a cohesive way, is that, 1) If there is no concrete definition of “woman,” what is a “woman’s right”? And 2) If a woman is not a material thing, but just a vague idea, why the concerted, often violent effort to insist “transwomen are [literally] women”? What does that mean? What is a woman? And why is it important we “accept transwomen as women” (particularly if there is no such thing)? What are we accepting them as, and how does it improve a male person’s life to be “accepted as a woman”? Hence my use of Sophist to describe her.
@ronmackinnon9374
@ronmackinnon9374 3 ай бұрын
@@rexcarrulers6504 When I clicked on this video, I was prepared to give this perspective a fair hearing. But they (plural, the two of them) lost me with the casual, group-loyalty-signaling use of the derogatory term 'terf'.
@marcelusdarcy
@marcelusdarcy 3 ай бұрын
​@@ronmackinnon9374terf isn't derogatory it just means trans exclusionary radical feminist
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
@@marcelusdarcy “terf” is sometkmes used derogatorily
@ant47613
@ant47613 2 ай бұрын
When she said that she doesn't understand any of the gener crtitical stuff, I thought "I'm not surprised". One needs a functioning, open, and not ideologically corrupted mind for that
@NickyM_0
@NickyM_0 2 ай бұрын
Well said!
@dewilew2137
@dewilew2137 2 ай бұрын
It doesn’t even require an open mind. Just common sense.
@ant47613
@ant47613 2 ай бұрын
@@dewilew2137 absolutely
@lucienmott9648
@lucienmott9648 3 ай бұрын
In today's society there are very few expections of how a boy or girl should act or represent their gender.
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
what is “expection”?
@Tawny593
@Tawny593 2 ай бұрын
​@@expedition346 A typo.
@mozar937
@mozar937 2 ай бұрын
Butler is a master of denial in every possible direction. A woman runs away from truth
@andreagibbs8557
@andreagibbs8557 2 ай бұрын
you maybe are an afraid person and you think there's a "truth" as if universal view could be
@Kirsty-tb4qp
@Kirsty-tb4qp Ай бұрын
Who's truth?
@mozar937
@mozar937 Ай бұрын
@@Kirsty-tb4qp exactly
@domeanaradmila1862
@domeanaradmila1862 3 ай бұрын
fantastic to watch such a thoughtful conversation between two very interesting people!
@annaa5549
@annaa5549 2 ай бұрын
7:00 So after minutes of talking in circles, this expert can't define what a woman is either, and that's one of many, many problems about gender ideology. It trumps humanity and common sense. This is why the world is better without this than with it, on balance. The definition of a woman has been straightforward throughout history. Why are trans ideologues changing the definition of what a woman is and forcing others to accept it, when they can't define it themselves, and when their expanded definition of womanhood trample upon the rights of others?
@khaossecond
@khaossecond 2 ай бұрын
I'd like to point out that the interviewer didn't ask Butler to answer what a woman is, but rather talk about what do people intend when they make the question "what is a woman"
@ParksIII
@ParksIII 3 ай бұрын
It’s about the children!!! “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Referrals to Taverstock and gender clinics presented a problem when it is clear from the patient data that most had 5 or more mental health comorbidities including anxiety, depression, autism, neurodivergence eating disorders as well as gender dysphoria it is unsurprising that the gender clinics only provided gender affirming care rather than assess the likelihood of other factors influencing the gender dysphoria. Gender affirming care ideologically will not investigate causes of gender dysphoria but simply affirms the gender identity and sets the patient on a transgender conveyor belt based on limited evidence. Criminally scandalous!!
@marcelusdarcy
@marcelusdarcy 3 ай бұрын
Surely that's just a problem with underfunded mental health services. Why do trans clinics have to shut down, why can't children's mental health services do better? My autism wasn't caught till I was 20. I had been under CAMHS since I was 15.
@peterjones3438
@peterjones3438 3 ай бұрын
Fantastic interview and discussion ❤
@CustomMap
@CustomMap 3 ай бұрын
First minute was really insulting. It's a bad look for someone to not engage with anything from the other side and just hand wave it away as fearmongering.
@farmpunk_dan
@farmpunk_dan 23 күн бұрын
So you don’t think the right are utilizing a fear of transness and gender nonconformity as a political tool?
@moonpixelle
@moonpixelle 3 ай бұрын
Great interview, would love to see Novara doing more of these kinds of interviews and feminist events.
@soulfoodie1
@soulfoodie1 3 ай бұрын
This ain't feminist
@vOtEbIdEnTosAvEdEmOcRaCy
@vOtEbIdEnTosAvEdEmOcRaCy 3 ай бұрын
@@soulfoodie1 You don't have to hatewatch KZfaq.
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv 3 ай бұрын
Orwellian use of the word 'feminist.' Strange times.
@moonpixelle
@moonpixelle 3 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv there's nothing Orwellian (really you meant dystopian) about calling contemporary feminist debate, feminist.
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv
@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv 3 ай бұрын
@@moonpixelle No. I meant Orwellian. Look in a dictionary. It's Orwellian to describe a men's rights movement as feminist. Nothing to do with 'dystopia.' Although, if you have your way we may well be in a dystopia.
@imitationofwoman
@imitationofwoman 2 ай бұрын
Of 129 trans identified males in UK prisons 78 are convicted sex offenders. Isn't anyone seriously worried about this? This is a much higher % than the male population. This isn't of course to say all trans identified males are perpetrators as these are prison-specific figures. Good to see Judith much more concerned about the welfare of men in prison than women here. Not sure which stats Ash is using here to seriously suggest that trans identified men are the most vulnerable in prison.
@brentboymebob8754
@brentboymebob8754 2 ай бұрын
Ash is probably referring to PMC6830990 and or PMC10756016, which states that on many occasions that incarcerated trans women have it worse in many ways, including resource access and sexual violence inflicted onto trans women. The former also does specifically mention where error and limits can conflict with the result, which can come as an issue with the data collected. Respectfully, I also have had many suspicions with how the data in the Parliament evidence (referring to the 78/129 statistic) referenced is collected. The pool of trans women is quite inconsistent, sometimes exceeding Prison and Probation reports on their own times, and is overly vague across the paper (of which I suspect is due to a strong emphasis on evidence collected by single-issue groups), there is too little data to make any conclusions. That's not to say this article isn't valid in all aspects, it at the very least shows that self ID access shouldn't be entirely unfettered, although it does not mean to abolish it entirely.
@LilFeralGangrel
@LilFeralGangrel 2 ай бұрын
Source? Ya made it up.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
​@@brentboymebob8754There are protection wings in men's prisons where they can put men scared of other prisoners. Absolutely nothing to do with women whatsoever - not one man should be in a women's prisons don't care if they've had surgery or whatever. Not women's problem.
@brentboymebob8754
@brentboymebob8754 2 ай бұрын
@ayeright320 You should look at the studies I just linked, they literally mention that protective custody is ineffective for solving the problem in it's entirety, because the prison never works in mental help, counseling, or providing medication. It's even been mentioned that prison staff of the mens prisons often discriminate against the trans women in particular. Not to mention, excluding trans people from prisons provides more problems. Trans men also come into custody, and regardless of your thoughts on their identity, they are still masculine people that get incarcerated, and like anyone else, they can be abusive, violent, and if the law does not care about surgery, still penetrative.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 2 ай бұрын
@@brentboymebob8754 Prisons have better things to do than pander to these people. Everyone in prison has mental health problems no one gets fussed over because of their lifestyle choices.
@R3D.R4V3N
@R3D.R4V3N 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for conducting this interview!
@fokkerfilms560
@fokkerfilms560 3 ай бұрын
"What are they taking?" Sports medals for a kick-off. 🤨
@tommarsden4510
@tommarsden4510 2 ай бұрын
You were asked whether you could define in good faith what a woman. After 12 minutes of nonsense your answer was... "why define a woman". Am so pleased Judith that you don't build bridges...
@sillyguy951
@sillyguy951 2 ай бұрын
would love to know what your definition of a woman is without resorting to a circular definition, i.e relying on “adult female” to save you
@dakinichick
@dakinichick 2 ай бұрын
LOL, "adult human female" IS the definition of the word "woman". Nothing circular about it. Read a book - the dictionary.
@fackarov9412
@fackarov9412 2 ай бұрын
@@sillyguy951 the words "adult" "human" "female" dont need "woman" to be defined so its not circular
@impossibleagent3663
@impossibleagent3663 2 ай бұрын
Adult human female is not a circular definition for woman.
@naskirchmayr5636
@naskirchmayr5636 2 ай бұрын
@@dakinichick yeah that's a very simple and clear definition. but go read the definition of "female" on dictionary and say farewell to all the simplicity.
@ethelmini
@ethelmini 3 ай бұрын
First time I've heard Judith, very impressive. How they are able to reduce a controversial & often emotive topic to simple, yet extremely focused logical propositions should be a lesson to our politicians & policy makers.
@nataliekhanyola5669
@nataliekhanyola5669 3 ай бұрын
This is all waffling and sophistry. Hardly anything logical about her statement.
@sophiepooks2174
@sophiepooks2174 3 ай бұрын
@@nataliekhanyola5669 Of course you can intellectualize prejudice anyway you like, to claim a persons logical world view doesn't meet your personal cultural bias, so not add up by your logic doesn't mean the other persons thinking is illogical, you just lack empathy or understanding of nuance for their particular points.
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
​@@sophiepooks2174"you lack empathy" there you go - the ad hominem attack because this person can see what rubbish this women talks and you can't.
@lighting7508
@lighting7508 3 ай бұрын
This was a very weak interview imo. If you want to get to the meat of the argument you have to ask the "right wing" questions. The way I see it, is if someone went into this interview gender critical they will come out gender critical after watching. only softball questions
@metaldemort
@metaldemort 3 ай бұрын
We already know quite well the "right wing questions", and their political purpose: to prevent any structured argumentation, to cut the grass under our feet before any real discussion start, to frame the conversation as badly as possible for the minorities and their rights. The same pro-fascists propagandists have been repeating them as loud as possible for years, and too many liberals are intoxicated by the same rhetoric. At least, we have here one hour without the usual right wing pollution. This may sure make some rightwingers and transphobes unhappy, but every one of our trans, intersex, non binary, non gender conforming existence make them unhappy anyway, making cisnormative people happy is out of reach for us.
@sunnyday6465
@sunnyday6465 3 ай бұрын
Yea, that sounds right.
@RikPurde
@RikPurde 3 ай бұрын
Undeniably true. And BTW, I agree with the quote marks around "right wing" - this is SO not a simple right/left issue.
@ShakirahIbaad
@ShakirahIbaad 3 ай бұрын
I agree. This interview was not robust enough and didn’t push back on Butler’s various assertions and opinions.
@apriljoy1094
@apriljoy1094 3 ай бұрын
I don’t think feminism, ie acknowledging women have needs and these should be fought for or protected, is right wing.
@jaydef6497
@jaydef6497 3 ай бұрын
The sound quality is such a shame, this is an amazing video, but the Noise-*shudder, a lot of people will give up
@nicholasmitchell8749
@nicholasmitchell8749 3 ай бұрын
The assumption that gender presentation effectively communicates gender identification, is not always the case. As a cis Male, this is sooo validating! I dont watch television and so its often assumed that I know what everyone is talking about. Its easy to deal with that, but I'm at a loss on how to deal with projections from minority groups, simply because I'm confused.
@expedition346
@expedition346 2 ай бұрын
if expression it is possible that presentation doesnt effectively communicate identification, then (without any other empirical characteristics), then identification is nonsense
@YawnGod
@YawnGod 3 ай бұрын
Nice.
@Gph0367
@Gph0367 3 ай бұрын
Great interview Ash. Thank you Novara, you are all amazing ❤
@ayeright320
@ayeright320 3 ай бұрын
😂😅😂
@MixalisBentzios
@MixalisBentzios 3 ай бұрын
When a person replies to a question with the phrase "it depends who's asking.." ok.. Dear they, reality is hard for you
@v_6302
@v_6302 3 ай бұрын
Words contain meaning and are filled with conotations. If a judge asks you if you like children, he could mean if you are pedophile, but asking the same from parents, is more like smalltalk about family, etc. Transphobes use that, as she clearly describes in the talk, that its used to discredit people that feel unomfortable giving a clear answere, because they dont want to exclude trans people. Others use that to try and better understand a topic. The goal is different, so the answere should be different to.
@nocturnal03
@nocturnal03 2 ай бұрын
@@v_6302 the answer is clear, and people avoid giving it because men aren't women so transwomen are men.
@shmeet
@shmeet 2 ай бұрын
_____________She never answered what a woman is.
@stephanieejoyce
@stephanieejoyce 2 ай бұрын
Philosophy isn’t about answers it’s about questions
@mewho6199
@mewho6199 2 ай бұрын
She wasn't really asked that question. The question was, "What do people mean when they ask that question?" So basically, they avoided having to define "woman."
@shmeet
@shmeet 2 ай бұрын
@@mewho6199 Same thing, same answer. Q. What is a woman? A. adult human female Q. "What do people mean when they ask that question?" A. They're asking if you think a woman is an adult human female. Either/or, they end up at the same thing. Her answer should have been 'They're asking if you think a woman is an adult human female."
@barbarasumrok8321
@barbarasumrok8321 2 ай бұрын
She doesn’t know.
@shmeet
@shmeet 2 ай бұрын
@@barbarasumrok8321 _______________Of course she does. Everyone knows.
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