Episode 81: Judith Butler's Gender Bubbles
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Show notes/Links:
Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html
Wi spa incident: https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/
Max Read on Gawker: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html
Crackstarter: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/mayor_rob_ford_crack_video_scandal_gawkers_crackstarter_hits_200000_goal.html
Random girl singing N-word: https://www.gawker.com/white-kid-caught-ecstatically-singing-nigga-by-coache-1697520011
Bryan Goldberg buys Gawker: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/gawker-acquired-bustle-bryan-goldberg-1202871999/
"The Relentless and Well-Deserved Mockery of Bryan Goldberg": https://www.gawker.com/the-relentless-and-well-deserved-mockery-of-bryan-goldb-1325205558
New Gawker meltdown: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments
We got bigots reviewing bigots out here!: https://www.gawker.com/media/bigot-reviews-bigot-for-nyt-book-review
What's Jesse Singal's F*****g Deals?: https://jezebel.com/whats-jesse-singals-f*****g-deal-1826930495
Carey Callahan on informed consent: https://mariacatt42.medium.com/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f
The terrible Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/
Jesse's review was 'violent': https://twitter.com/britnidlc/status/1435323903199649797
Murders: https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1435722753156468737
HRC's fearmongering: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2021
Polling on self-ID: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/16/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights
Judith Butler interviewed in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender
Original, pre-cuts version: https://archive.is/jds9K
Judith Butler wins the Bad Writing Contest: http://www.denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm
Martha Nussbaum demolishes Butler: https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody
Eoin Higgins: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1435355735056162826
Jezebel explains what happened: https://jezebel.com/the-guardian-says-edited-judith-butler-interview-was-re-1847636842
Nathan Robinson says he lost his Guardian gig for being harsh on Israel: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-the-media-cracks-down-on-critics-of-israel
Widespread claims of censorship: https://twitter.com/search?q=guardian%20censor*&src=typed_query
...but no (thread): https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1435674221586305027
Critique of gender identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxYkawao&ab_channel=HelenHeaton
WoLF folks on a panel at Heritage: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conservative-group-hosts-anti-transgender-panel-feminists-left-n964246
Gender Now: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/gender-now
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| 0:00.0 | I'm having a pretty good week and I'm having a much better week than my brother. |
| 0:08.5 | What happened to your brother? |
| 0:09.5 | My brother's car started acting funny and there was a recall in effect for it so we thought |
| 0:14.4 | maybe that was causing the funnyness. |
| 0:16.6 | Takes a car to a dealership. |
| 0:18.6 | Today he gets some photos and an explanation from the mechanic there. |
| 0:23.5 | It turns out that when it rains a lot or when there's flooding, rodents will seek out |
| 0:29.6 | places to hide. |
| 0:31.3 | My brother's car was infested with rats that chewed their way through a bunch of wires and |
| 0:37.1 | as the mechanic put it, they were starting to nest in his car. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:42.0 | So I assume that he just said, keep the car. |
| 0:43.7 | I don't want it anymore. |
| 0:45.1 | That's literally the next thing I was going to say is that if this was my car and the |
| 0:47.8 | mechanic told me that I'd be like, okay, I think our next step is for you to put it |
| 0:51.8 | and push it into the river. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | Burden. |
| 0:54.8 | I am not driving this fucking car anymore. |
| 0:55.8 | There's some gasoline on that. |
| 0:56.9 | That reminds me a long time ago my sister where we were in college, she had an old Volvo |
| 1:01.5 | and the car wouldn't start. |
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