My group this week looked at Judith Butler's article, which I found very interesting. Her philosophy on gender performance presents a theory that I believe is beneficial to the way of utopian thinking. She explains that gender performance is acted out unconsciously and that we as people desire to achieve social norms. I believe that her ideas help to validate the ideas of "utopia." "The prescription is invariably more difficult, if only because we need to think a world in which acts, gestures, the visual body, the clothed body, the various physical attributes usually associated with gender, express nothing (Butler)."If we as people can can stop thinking in terms that confine us, we can move on to a bigger notion of equality. Utopian ideas go against the ideas of normality. This is where I believe the goal of change can become difficult. The idea of Utopia might "too aggressive" to a world that has developed a concrete way of thinking that they see fit. Even lack of knowledge makes it difficult because we can "be ok" with what we dont understand/know. How can you really undo or "un-brainwash," the whole world. Thats even bigger than trying to make people see past race.
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