The liminality of Rafia Zakaria's turd

Rafia Zakaria, a Pakistani American lawyer, whose craziness I have commented on previously, writes of Judith Butler's new book that it  

presents a sharp explication of how the “intensifying phantasmic force of gender” has become the target for all those who fear a world where constructed categories dissipate and expose their own unreality.

In other words, Putin and Xi and Orban and, no doubt, Modi, are all shitting themselves because some people with vaginas dress up like teenage rent-boys. Needless to say, this is because of Neoliberalism.  

For those in the antigender movement, even the thought of such a world, free as it would be from the dominance of colonial epistemology

White peeps didn't just have dicks- which would have been bad enough. Some of them had brains and acquired knowledge. This shows that stuff you find in textbooks are the product of White dicks which continue to RAPE us incessantly. Ban White dicks. They are very evil more particularly because they can cause Whites to have brains and write books. Butler's book is okay. She may be a Jew, but she don't got no dick and thus can't have a brain.  

and compulsory heterosexuality,

Queen Victoria was cool with Lesbians 

is unbearable and thus galvanizing.

Why else did Putin invade Ukraine? It is because Zelensky was dressing up like a girl and having sex with sailors.  

Butler’s discussion of how Black women’s bodies made “women’s medicine” possible is

nonsense. Medicine for women had nothing to do with the color of the skin of the women concerned. Agnodice is the first female physician and midwife recorded in Greek literature.  Trotula De Ruggiero was the first female physician in Italy. She was probably the most famous and important member of the so-called Mulieres Salernitanae (Women from Salerno), a group of women physicians who studied at the Medical School of Salerno and practiced the art of medicine at the end of the first millennium. Both were White and saw only white women because black women did not exist in their vicinity. 

particularly insightful because it reveals the connection between the trans-exclusionary and right-wing vitriol directed

by JK Rowling- right?  

against the dissolution of gender categories and the upholding of the colonial epistemologies that undergird them.

Rafia thinks Emperor Aurangazeb was a cross-dresser. Prophet Muhammad did not condemn the 'xanith' or transvestite (though such people did perform a useful economic function for the harems of the very rich). What happened when the White man came to Ind's coral strand, was that Indians were forced to grow either a dick or a vag. Also, the Viceroy would personally prise apart any dudes he saw copulating with each other. This was the leading cause of the Indian Mutiny.  

In their chapter on the subject, Butler notes that it was the bodies of female Black slaves on which examinations were done.

Not in the places where medicine was advancing most rapidly. Places with a lot of black slaves didn't have much in the way of 'medical examinations'.  

At the same time, Butler tells us that these women were “flesh, not women, since women were presumptively white, and they were not served by the medical treatments they made possible.”

If so the price of black slaves would not have varied according to gender. They would have been sold by weight.  

Gender, Butler explains, “arrives only with whiteness.”

Gender arrived before the gene for whiteness came into existence. It existed in places which had never seen a white man.  

Black flesh exists only as an invisible, undifferentiated mass until reality and permissibility is bestowed upon it by white assessment and categorization.

Butler is white. Since she lacks a dick, she can't do assessment and categorization but repeats any paranoid shit she chances upon.  

This form of genital surveillance was also common in colonial India.

The Arthashastra tells us that, in ancient Magadha, it was one of the duties of the bandhakiposhaka- or keeper of prostitutes. At the time there were both State owned and private brothels. Wherever prostitution has been taxed or otherwise licensed or regulated, there has also been periodic examination of genitals. Soldiers too were subjected to this. Why? The answer is obvious. It was to control the spread of venereal diseases.

One of the first laws that the British passed in the subcontinent was one that made all women subject to forced genital examinations.

No. The first laws passed by the British long predated their gaining 'Nizamat'- i.e. control of the administration. It is not the case that the Brits spent a lot of time surveilling dicks or vaginas. They were in India to make money. It was only over a century after Plassey that the Brits got around to passing the Cantonment Act of 1864. Native states already had such laws or customs. There were also 'Contagious Diseases Acts' for non-Army areas but these were repealed in 1884. The English feminist, Joshephine Butler was a prime mover in this. However, local kotwals quietly used the traditional system of requiring the brothel owner to ensure such checks were carried out. 

Those who did not submit faced imprisonment and criminal charges.

One such appealed to the Court and was released.  

Per Butler’s argument, this too can be seen as an expression of gender surveillance in which the truth of a woman being a woman had to be verified by colonial authorities.

Nonsense! Many women were purdah-nashin. Viceroy wasn't constantly barging into the andaroon demanding to see vaginas. On the other hand, there is considerable evidence that Sherlock Holmes, of Baker Street, disguised himself as a pussy cat so as to meticulously record details of various Indian pussies. 

Also, as historian Durba Mitra points out in her book Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, body parts from Indian women were collected and stored for British doctors to study.

Did you know that Conan Doyle trained to be a Doctor? That's when he met Sherlock Holmes who had collected lots of Indian vaginas so that British peeps could qualify as Doctors. If you wanted to be a Dentist, you had to have access to a collection of Nigerian dicks. Since Nigerians tend to thump you if you try taking away their dicks, Britain lagged behind in dentistry.  

Some parallels can be drawn between these acts of domination through the examination of genitalia then and legislation to allow genital examinations of minors in countries like Sweden now, under the purported umbrella of identifying cases of female genital cutting.

Did you know that a swede is actually a root vegetable? In Sweden, these are generally found inside vaginas. Neoliberalism is causing that country to try to increase rutabaga exports by forcible examination of vaginas. Their claim that they are trying to detect and punish female genital mutilation is just a cover story. 

Butler’s genealogical examination of gender reaches into the past,

when White men invented vaginas and installed them in Black women under Colonialism.  

but its probative value also lies in providing contemporary feminists tools to understand the present.

Sweden has joined NATO. Why? Obviously, their soldiers want to come and search your vagina just in case some rutabaga can be found hiding there. Wake up sheeple! Capitalism is seeking to avert its final crisis by surveilling your genitalia. 

The idea of “phantasmagoria” as a wildly obsessive force is an apt explication of the obsession with curbing reproductive choice.

i.e. killing fetuses.  

The pregnant person presents a riddle of liminality and a challenge to categorization in that it is impossible to delineate exactly where the person ends and the fetus begins.

Where does Rafia end and where does the turd in her colon begin? A person who needs to take a dump presents a riddle of liminality.  

Saying life begins at conception is a literal effort to insist on the reality and naturalness of constructed categories by endowing them with artificial certainty that is then affirmed in law.

Saying Rafia is full of shit is a literal effort to insist on the reality and naturalness of 'constructed categories' which differentiate her from a turd. Why is the law affirming this distinction? If it is okay to flush a turd down the toilet, why is it not okay to do the same to Rafia? After all, it is only because of 'colonial epistemology' that she is considered a human being with legal rights rather than a lump of shit. 

Finally, it is hopeful that Butler sees transnational feminism as a basis for solidarity against the antigender movement.

Because the thing is already known to be utterly useless against anything else. Hopefully, after taking on the 'antigender movement' it will develop the organizational muscle to oppose the Neoliberal 'right to fart' campaign. 

Such solidarity depends on noting and affirming that “translation often alters the meaning of the term.”

Only if the translation is shit. A solidarity which depends on noting and affirming shit isn't worth a fart.  

It also requires recognition that common cause is to be found in the brutality of imposed gender categories

Mummy is a horrible brute. She dressed me like a little girl. Had she had an ounce of humanity, she would have aborted me so as to express solidarity with hijras.  

and that such an imposition was (and is) an act of colonial dominance.

If Rafia has a vagina, it is because Viceroy Mountbatten cruelly imposed it on her. Thankfully, the IRA killed him. But King Charles has taken over that job. Did you know Kate Middleton was forced by Prince Phillip to grow a vagina? King of Sweden is now demanding the right to surveil her kooch. That is the real story behind this so called 'cancer' diagnosis. Wake up sheeple! Don't believe everything you read in the Daily Mail.  

Butler’s work is an invaluable contribution to how the transnational, and particularly transnational feminism, can still exist without an imposed and requisite universal.

Why should feminism be about peeps with vaginas? Why shouldn't it concern itself with turds?  

It is also a valuable example of how the intersectionality of inequities faced by feminists

e.g the manner in which not having a dick exacerbates the inequity of not having had a satisfactory bowel movement since my period began.  

is confronted by a mad mosaic of fear and desire for dominance that is the phantasmagoric antigender movement.

What Rafia represents is a mad mosaic of fear and the desire to be stupider than a turd. JK Rowling can make lots of money out of 'phantasmagoria'. Had she taken a PhD in whatever shite this lady studied, she too could be utterly useless.