So, completely unrelated to my normal furry existence, I've also been reading Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" for school.

Butler is one of the cornerstones of modern queer theory, and is usually brought up as the person who sought to prove "gender is performative"

I was surprised to see a quote that mentioned gender transformation specifically (in the context of drag), and felt like sharing it for whatever reason:

"The possibilities of gender transformation are to be found precisely in the arbitrary relation of such acts, [acts that perform gender] in the possibility of a failure to repeat, a de-formity, or a parodic repetition that exposes that phantasmic effect of abiding identity as a politically tenuous construction" (Gender Troubles, 1990, pg# 192).

Though kind of wordy, I like the gist of this. If gender is a series of repeated acts, then gender transformation is just changing to different repeated acts. Neither what your were before or after the transformation is "the real immutable you" but they are both created and maintained by repeated actions.

I like queer theory because of the focus on acts and words instead of essential qualities. It's not about what your "really are" (which is usually a label that other people give you. You ARE and will always be, you.) Instead, its about what your do, and what your say, and how you act (which feels much more agential. You DO you. If you change what you do, you change you.)

Anyways, not going anywhere specific with this, but if you want a fancy quote to show people about TGTF, here it be.

On an unrelated note,

I'm writing a story about totally not gay wolf gym bros. Just dudes being dudes.

Or possibly, dudes being lewds.

-Fake