The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.