Episode 126

The first long-form episode of The Reality Report: a three-hour conversation with post-structuralist feminist philosopher Jane Clare Jones about sex, gender and the social/cultural/political influence of "superstar academic" Judith Butler's more extreme claims regarding these subjects (e.g., "biological sex is a social construct").

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• Jane Clare Jones
• J.C. Jones, "Sovereign Invulnerability: Sexual Politics and the Ontology of Rape" (PhD Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, December 2016)
• J.C. Jones, "Post-structuralism, Butler and Bodies" (the piece which inspired this conversation)
• Prince Rogers Nelson
• post-structuralism
• rape culture
• Anders Breivik
• incels
• Judith Butler
• queer theory
• third-wave feminism
• second-wave feminism
• first-wave feminism (suffragettes, etc.)
• "sex-negative"
• Andrea Dworkin
• J. Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)
• Michel Foucault
• Derrick Jensen
• Derrick Jensen on queer theory
• Foucauldian feminism
• Foucault's child sexual abuse apologetics (fifth paragraph)
• Native American "two-spirit" people
• sexual dimorphism
• intersex conditions
• Foucault and the intersex movement
• clownfish sex changes
• hermaphrodism
• that long twitter thread arguing against sexual dimorphism in humans
• Foucault's concept of "discourse"
• phenomenology
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "chiasm"
• Donald Davidson
• Wittgenstein's "family resemblances"
• Plato's ideal forms
• Caster Semenya
• Audre Lorde
• Kimberlé Crenshaw
• the "cis-" prefix
• Mumsnet's, Feminism and Women's Rights messageboard
• solipsism
• Munroe Bergdorf
• those "pussy hats"
• the term "TERF"
• huge body of examples of "TERF" used as a slur
• "cissexism"
• patrilineal inheritance
• etymology of "semen"
• Stonewall
• Stonewall's glossary of terms
• Goldsmiths University
• Martine Rothblatt
• third-wave feminists protesting closure of Sheffield strip club
• feminist views on prostitution
• Tavistock Clinic (London)
• Gender Recognition Act 2004 (UK)
• GRA consultation: official UK goverment info on the subject
• Gender Recognition Certificate (UK)
• Equalities Act 2010 (UK)
• "Truscum" (slur)
• Kimberley Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief case
• recent Toronto women's homeless shelter story
• Bill C-16 (Canada)
• Jess Bradley scandal (National Union of Students, UK)
• Challenor scandal (UK Green Party)
• Riley J. Dennis
• Everyday Feminism
• Avery Edison
• the "cotton ceiling"
• pansexuality
• otherkin
• furries
• transracialism
• transageism
• transableism
• Pride
• LGBTQIA+
• rapid-onset gender dysphoria
• L. Littman's ROGD study
• Medium.com article by Sue Donymous on "astroturfing" within transgenderism
• hormone replacement theory
• Lupron (puberty blocker)