The claim, by Butler, that sex can not be known about or, even exist,
prediscursively is testable.
oh no
An elegant study [Lederberg et al., 1986] proves conclusively that Butler is wrong. Were the Butler hypothesis true, deaf children would be unable to distinguish boys from girls.
WHAT
The researchers monitored deaf and hearing children aged 3 to 5 in terms of their preferences for same sex versus opposite sex playmates. The children were observed at playgroups and the time spent playing with same and opposite gender children was recorded. Both hearing and deaf children showed a clear preference for same sex play partners.
this disproves Butler how???????
from earlier:
In this section we move on to the ideas of an influential philosopher who has written about gender : Judith Butler. One of the novel and ambitious hypotheses put forward by Butler is that not only gender, but sex itself is a social construct.
she literally quotes other feminists for raising this idea oh my fucking god
