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s05e112 | Why Woke Won't Work, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance

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The Soul Imprisons the Body

Foucault said the body is a prison for who their gender soul inside really should be. But Judith Butler built queer theory out of saying it's not that way. So what does that mean? Well, the soul is this some totality of social relations that have created a patriarchal heteronormative order. You are conditioned by social forces to believe it is appropriate and normal to be a certain way based on external features That don't really mean anything as to who you really are.

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