Doesn't the phenomenon of "drag" serve to refute the concept of identity being based on performance? And if I decided to arbitrarily begin to have sex with men, would my identity be a "woman"? Or would I suddenly become a "gay man"?

It's not really designed to stand on it's own, it's designed to undermine existing ideas and bolster a political movement. Shallow is an apt descriptor

Paul Fry. Theory of Literature. Yale University Press, 2012. Donald Hall. Literary and Cultural Theory. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Vincent Leitch. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Norton, 2001. David Lodge. Modern Criticism and Theory. Longman, 1997.

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@Jacob B I did watch but I don’t understand. Is your second sentence essentially queer theory m?

It's Marxism dressed up with flowery language as an excuse to validate the extremes of perverted behaviour. It tries to legitimise talking about some of the worst things possible. To break down the barriers between adults and children, sexually. Of course the people it is describing aren't adhering to those ideas like foucault had or even concerned with being part of any unified group. They just want to live their lives without being an activist. Everything is unstable and never fixed, you are demanded by the theory to always in flux gender wise. That is not how adults form a stable emotional state. Regardless of gheir gender identity, everyone needs to function in the world so forever talking and thinking about your gender indefinitely seems a very damaging situation for so many

So from what I understood from the video is that sexuality is not simply biological but is defined by the context (culture and time). Within a society there are ideas, sometimes laws/policies, of "this is how a relationship should be"/"this is what is accepted" while looking negatively at people who don't conform to those ideas. If you look at different cultures, or look through history, you can see there are different ideas of what is "acceptable" to perform. The context shapes performance. But these laws/policies/ideas come from society not biology, so queer theory is explaining that sexuality is not simply biology. I think it's easier to grasp that society has a big influence on identity in a different way, but I'm guessing this is gender theory. Take the Western idea of boys dressing in blue and avoiding pink and girls dressing in pink. It used to be the other way round as pink was a "baby" version of red, red being a dominant colour linked to power - so "manly", while blue represented the virgin Mary so it would be used for girls. It was then swapped round because of French royalty and this idea had been the accepted norm for a while. This idea is changing again - colours are not gender specific. I hope that helped and didn't confuse you more... and I hope I understood the concept correctly lol

Breaking social norms like pedophilia

lol you dont start with that. and most are smart enough to not define that clearly.

I thought I was the only one who wants to give up,

can you clarify

Seems the only impact Easy Rider had on trash hollywood, is when the director of Kill Bill copied it, in terms of style, narrative and that air-of-nihilism.