Julian Stridiron

Ms. Allford
CRLT 101, Section G
6 November 2016
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Dear Ms. Allford,
I feel like her going to get her education and loving what she learned and stared her work
in got her to where she is now. It says that she started out in gender, sexuality, and war. I think
that she thinks that all of those has something in common, and she specifies that in her writing.
She talks about gender identity and this is what Im going to be analyzing.
She says that it is shaped by cultural norms and conventions, and although bodies and
biology matter, gender identity is mutable, available for change. I feel like it is willed and not,
because people may be born thinking differently and some other people may be thinking that
they are in need change. I feel like when she says that when the people criticized her prose they
did so because its against the norms. Yes, people didnt think like other people. The thought like
most people normal and her norm wasnt the usual norm. Saying we live in a world and we
choose how it is and what we do to make it that way. The other side of the argument is saying
that it is disrespectful of how you represent and posturing. I dont think that, that is the case. I
think that what way you choose to view things then that the one you view them. There really is
no right or wrong. There is just those people who think that its wrong in many ways.

I do feel like the way she writes and says things has changed the way that people view
things. She gives a different look at sexuality. A different look at desire and gender. People can
be who they want to be. She says that there is a risk of anthropocentrism. Assuming that the
distinctively human life is valuable or most valuable. She asks a question of who counts as the
human and whose lives count as live. She also says what makes a grievable life. I think that
every life counts. I dont think that there only set lives that matter and those who are out cased
arent. I think that, that just makes you different and thats just the way that you are. I think that
she is saying that we should have the freedom to believe how we believe. People should want to
have the freedom to wish what they want and have their own way of thinking.
She also talks about the ethics, and sexuality. She asks is there a way in which the place
of the body in these struggles opens up a different conception of politics? I feel like its really
all the same. Its more the same and more talking about people in general. People are shunned by
what other people think is a defeat and thats not right, people are the same but just think in
different ways. That brings in where she talks about people shouldnt talk bad about other people
just because they are different. The body implies mortality, vulnerability agency: the skin and
the flesh expose us to the faze of others but also to touch and to violence. I feel like what she is
saying here is the skin is the reason we look at others. What that skin looks like and gives off
attracts us. She also says we struggle for the right over our own bodies but we dont because it
has its own public dimension. I feel like what shes saying is the way you show off your body is
to look at by other people. Those people look at your body and you really cant do any about it.
Your body is in other peoples eyes and they have an image of you that you cant get back. She
also talks about autonomy. She wants to know should she struggle for autonomy. I think that if
she really believes that thats the best thing to do its right in her mind then it could and shall be

done. I feel like if you want to be physically dependent on another person then it should be dont
in a right way. It shouldnt be done if you can do it yourself. If a person is physically dependent
on you then you should think about it. Think about whats the right in all of this. I think what
she is saying that I am promoting a relational view of the self over an autonomous one, or trying
to redescribe autonomy in terms of relationality. Is that she would prefer to rely on herself and
not rely on someone else. I get what shes saying. I believe that for the most part it is best to rely
you and only yourself. But only if it gets you where you want to be.

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In this paper Im talking and analyzing what the author wrote. Butler has had thoughts on a lot of
thing that other people have and she wants to give a better look at it whats the problem. I feel
like what she writes about is relatable and isnt wrong.