Judith Butler Queerness
When someone is called “queer,” it is in reference to their indecipherability in sexuality and gender, and refusal to be categorized by the normativity of societal standards. Judith Butler stated that for “gender to be intelligible, ancillary traits and behaviors must divide and align themselves beneath a master division between male and female anatomy.” Before the complex emergence of queerness, people were able to infer things about attraction based on outward anatomies; but now with the elasticity of gender binaries, different social stereotypes are apparent and allow for a new type of discrimination. Butler is saying that when queer-associated activities like drag or unexpected sexual actions become popular, there are other consequences