Judith Butler Gender Roles In Society

The theories on what the role of gender does in society are countless in number, but Judith Butlers is widely known for the aspect of how gender and performativity coincide with one another. In her theory she talks about how the role of gender is defined by what society wants it to be and not what a person is actually. Butler also talks about how these roles are recurring in society because of the performativity aspect of gender. These roles are what Butler wants to break away from and she goes as far as to connect her theory with the idea of Queer Theory that has also been spread throughout today’s society. For Judith Butler she believes that the role of gender has been defined by how we teach our children to act. This would go along with the idea of masculinity and femininity and the way that if a sex does not exhibit a certain one than they are labeled as outsiders to the gender. This is greatly shown when people tell boys “you throw like a girl” or when people tell girls that “women belong in the kitchen”. These ideas are what force people into these role and why Judith Butler states
Clark is the main hero of the story who is a female character. Clark does not fit into the typical gender role and actually takes charge of her group of people. She becomes a leader to them and does not rely on the men of the group to make her decisions even thought she does ask their opinions on different aspects of her decisions. This is where I disagree with Butler that all of society is trying to put people into gender roles. I do agree with her about the idea of the empowerment of Queer theory because it also happens that Clark is bisexual and her girlfriend also happens to be the leader of the grounders who inhabit the land. This helps to show that everyone are just people and that their sex should not limit them to what they can do in