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Reflection on the Judith Butler Lecture
I found Judith Butler’s lecture on Monday night very intriguing. I was a bit apprehensive before the lecture because I expected her to deliver her speech in the same way she writes, which at times can be quite dense, but I think Butler did a very excellent job making her speech much more accessible. In her speech Butler said that gender is assigned from birth when a stranger checks off a box labeling one as male or female, and that person is expected to reproduce the norms of that specific gender. I am curious to find out how Butler feels about all woman’s colleges. All woman’s colleges categorizes and excludes people as well as empower people. I wonder if Butler finds all-woman’s colleges to be a more positive or negative thing.