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???????
@packbat the idea is that gendering people with your eyes is a non-linguistic act, which............. somehow, the readers never even considered the interpretation that this could be called, reading,
@aescling the original claim is so far out from what we find intuitive that we don't even know how they got there
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@packbat reading that had my jaw on the floor, i had no idea what the fuck these authors were on about