Author tells lesbian to stay home if she doesn't want to see penises

A non-binary gender theorist told a lesbian activist that she should stay at home if she doesn't want to see a penis in a female-only space. 

Judith Butler made the remarks after being questioned over their views during an event on Thursday in San Francisco. 

Local activist Amanda Kovattana questioned the 68-year-old over whether trans women who still have penises should be admitted to female only spaces. 

Kovattana asked Butler: 'If gender is to liberate us, why can't I as a lesbian, have a d***-free space? A space that is for women only, without penises?'

Butler quickly fired back at Kovattana, saying: 'I think you can do that in your home', which was welcomed with applause from the audience. 


Bay Area lesbian activist @AmandaKovattana asked this question in front of hundreds of Judith Butler fans during a City Art & Lectures event on June 13th in San Francisco. Check out her most recent book:

The Unexpected Penis: Conversations On The Gender Trail…

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Judith Butler made the remarks after being questioned over their views during an event on Thursday in San Francisco

She then continued: 'I hope and obat kuat murah trust that you don't have a son with a penis. I think you are free to say that.

'You are free to say it hear and you are free to say it out loud. I do wonder, maybe you wonder, about what is the danger of the penis.

'I understand the revolting abhorrent character of rape. I understand that women can be raped by a man with a penis. 

'Those same women, those same men, may also love somebody with a penis. The penis is not a dangerous instrument.'

Butler continued: 'It's mobilized in the service of violence where men are taught to be a certain way. 

'I think that we don't, at least I don't, reduce people to their anatomical parts or their biological parts', which was also met with a round of applause. 

After audio of their exchange was shared on social media platform X, Kovattana shared the clip. 

She added: 'Proud to have given a little push back to the erasure of lesbians looking for a penis free social life in the face of Butler's wholesale erasure of boundaries in this queering of society project. 

'The boundaries of categories are now said to be an imperialistic impetus.'




Local activist Amanda Kovattana questioned the 68-year-old over whether trans women who still have penises should be admitted to female only spaces

Butler, who is non-binary and prefers to use they/them pronouns, had been in the California city discussing their newest book 'Who's Afraid of Gender?'.

Her remarks were widely criticized on social media after audio of their exchange was shared. 

One person commented: 'She jumps straight to it being about fear of violence and rape. But the question wasn't that. 

'The question was about lesbians having male free space. Judith comes across extremely homophobic here. 

'It might not matter to her, but it does matter to exclusive sexual orientations.'

Another added: 'They laugh like fools, they applaud like sheep. Butler talks of violence whilst telling a lesbian exactly what they say to women under oppressive regimes. 

'Stay home. Don't speak. Don't complain. Don't exist. Butler is neither bright nor sane, and certainly no feminist.'


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