Critical? Yes. Theoretical? No.

Because I'm currently enrolled in a literary theory class which happens to focus heavily on gender theory, and because my enrollment in said class has forever ruined the way I process information, I can't help but wonder what Judith Butler (famed post-structural feminist) would have to say in regard to pop singer Usher's recent claim that black women are becoming lesbians due to a shortage of available black men:

“It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man—a black man—in a time when women are dying for men,” he says. “Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men. Are you not studying the stories? Wake up! Black love is a good thing.”
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I'm sure that Butler would go off about gender constructs being fluid and largely created through repetition of stylized acts which in turn establish a culturally heteronormative idea of "core" genders. Perhaps she would go on to explain to Usher, if he happened to be present, that sexuality is a largely performative act having nothing to do with black men, or men of any other color, or women for that matter. She might even go as far as to say "No, Usher. The wold does not get a little bit gayer every time that Flo Rida song comes on."


Or maybe she would just agree with me in thinking that Usher is a tool.