just a reminder that the “judith butler is a bad writer” canard is now and has always been straight-up misogyny. their work has always been read by queers and feminists and people dislike that. anti-intellectualism is an embarrassing way to show your ass

people should be required to parse a single sentence of negative dialectics before they publish this shit take

To be clear, it’s not that Butler is *easy*. They frequently aren’t. It‘s that the difficulty of their writing is endemic to continental philosophy. The kind of difficult that reads like genius in men (Adorno) reads like messiness in those perceived as women (Butler).