Personally, I think that a lot of people spend a significant amount of their time and energy devoted to questions of what it means to be a certain gender, what the power implications are, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. By this time most everybody gets it: there is power in the discursive, there is power in the normative. The question now is not where this discursive/normative power is and what all of its manifestations are (obviously there are infinite iterations), but how do we conduct our politics and behave towards one another on a personal level in light of our awareness of discursive/normative power loci like gender? I see two answers to both parts of this question. One is to effort to transcend such power loci in a search for the socratic Good. The other is to explore and embrace power as an end in and of itself. I keep my personal choice between these two answers private.

Where does that leave me in regards to feminism? I will leave that up to everyone else. It doesn’t much matter to me.