apparently the world is not as we know it! GASP!

i caught the first few minutes of Wife Swap on TV just as i was going to get back to revision and the theme was about the role of women in the home. One was really about the empowerment of women (she teaches pole-dancing in her house and says it helps women bring out their inner sexuality and help them understand what it means to be a woman) and the other believes that women have to treat their husbands/men in their life like kings and serve them/be submissive/never let them lift a finger. the second woman said that she believes that is the key to a good marriage and that is the reason why so many young couples break up because the woman expects too much from the man.

and all this time i was thinking, wait a miniute, according to the reading i just did on gender theory by Judith Butler, all this is complete rubbish because gender is a cultural construct and therefore is not absolute. neither is it linked to one's sex and therefore it is possible for man, masculine, woman and feminine to be interchangable. gender is a performance and therefore because gender is an act, the various ways in which a body shows/produces its cultural significance are performantive and thus there is no preexisting identity by which an act can be measured. which means there is no such thing as a true or false gender identity!

i think learning causes you to question everything (it is a post-modern condition!) and thus everything you grew up with inevitably gets questioned...