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Being accused of performativity has, of course, existed long before the internet. Partaking in polite, adult society had always been somewhat of a performance. As Christine Tran, assistant professor at the Alberta University of the Arts, puts it: “For centuries, it has been women who were the default fakes: fake gamer girls, ‘pick me’ girls and the myriads of women we accuse of just liking things for ‘male attention’.” The fact that men can now be called performative could be considered what Tran calls “a revenge micro-fantasy”. For centuries, it has been women who were the default fakes: fake gamer girls, ‘pick me’ girls and the myriads of women we accuse of just liking things for ‘male attention’ “The performative male reflects very present anxieties about the entanglement of gender and ‘authentication’ at the forefront of the war on free gender expression,” continues Tran. “It is a safe, comedic space to fool with the idea of how we all ‘perform’ our gender.” It was Judith Butler who famously described gender as “a
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM