Furthermore, this discussion on how writers draw gender tiered anxieties confounds with the initial definition of original. To create an original work, you can’t copy or imitate a previous work. Conveniently, the anxiety of authorship is a phenomenon that describes the inability to create due to the lack of a source of inspiration or rather imitation. However, that argument is for women of the 19th century. The modern day has a plethora of writing in many different styles from both men and women, so the situation of anxiety of authorship doesn’t have equal weight in this argument. However, its existence indicates the underlying truth about how social factors like gender influence the very creation of writing. By implying that we write with gendered base forms, it can be concluded that new works possibly can be original. If we apply a perspective that gender provides a point of origin for creation and that point of origin directly belongs to the subject, then a …show more content…
To design the argument, Butler exposes the purpose of drag as an, “an imitation or dramatization of signifying gestures” (2511). As a drag queen (male) exaggerates stereotypical female behaviors and looks, they allude to the very performative nature of gender itself. Their performance challenges the socially agreed upon distinctions between the body of an individual and the gender of an individual. The performance states that social gender or gender identity is not dependent on the physical sex of the body. Therefore gender identity is an acquired personality trait. A trait that we acquire through our residual and social experience along with the certain genetic predispositions each individual is born with. From this perspective, each individual’s gender identity becomes nothing but a repetitive imitation of behavioral norms made in order to make sense of the life’s “inherently untidy