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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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Sex Essentialism and the Evil Demiurgis

Judith Butler believes in the social constructions of sex, gender, etc. She says sexual essentialism is embedded in the folk wisdom of Western societies. So here again, she's locating sex essentialism in humanity's wrong beliefs about nature as she sees it and what nature implies. That's one of the things that's holding back a radical theory of sex, queer nosticism.

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