Architects of Woke: Judith Butler's War on Science (6 min) Rob Montz, dir. Fri. 2:10 pm
ARCHITECTS OF WOKE exposes the outsized influence of Judith Butler, the UC Berkeley feminist gender theorist famous for arguing that gender is a performance rather than biological reality, which led to the notion that gender is an endlessly divisible spectrum that can have far more than two types, male and female. Her theories, spread through dense, opaque jargon, gave birth to the notion that gender is subjective and non-binary, which some lesbian activists assert has corrupted feminism and harmed women. Butler is a powerful force in academe, serving on the executive council of the Modern Language Association, which sets writing standards for high school and college students.
