Judith Butler counterpoints earlier ideas of gender representation, such as Laura Mulvey’s idea that “gender is fixed – male/female” and how “it is structured by institutions and those powerful individuals who are able to exert power and control”
While Butler does recognize other theories such as Laura Mulvey’s, she theorizes that “gender is fluid, changeable, plural a set of categories to be played out and performed by individual subjects in individual moments in time and space.”
This suggests that people have different “identities” which adhere to the different social settings/conditions that we put ourselves in.
There are a few categories of “personalities” such as lipstick lesbian (a lesbian who exhibits greater amounts of feminine attributes), butch and femme ( a lesbian who displays more masculine behaviors and styles) and girly girls (a female who chooses to display themselves in a more traditionally feminine way i.e pink clothes, makeup, dresses gossiping, etc)
Over time gender has evolved to be more diverse, and less defined by a set of behaviours associated with either male or female. Now gender can be anything- but is still heavily influenced but traditional beliefs.
