We Fight Those Misrepresentations Because They are False

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

Feminists know that women with ambition are called “monstrous” or that women who are not heterosexual are pathologised. We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex social diversity of women.