However, Butler argues (rather effectively) that the belief that they are often in conflict, even in this world, is a mistake.

Butler argues that gender is not an expression of what one is, but rather something that one does.

Butler argues that one measure of a conservative writer is "whether the plot, broadly, suggests a victim suffering at the hands of society".

Butler argues that Austen's novels are so structured, and thus conservative.

Butler does not argue for, but simply presupposes, that a person is conscious of his self.

Butler argues the notion of "maternity" as the long-lost haven for females is a social construction.

Butler argues the distinction of effective anti-semitism, and intentional anti-semitism is at best controversial.

Butler argues that the performance of gender, itself creates gender.

Butler argued that feminism made a mistake in trying to make "women" a discrete, ahistorical group with common characteristics.

Butler argues that hate speech exists retrospectively, only after being declared such by state authorities.