These days, liberal feminism is fashionable, and so an increasing number of men and women do not hesitate to call themselves feminists, though not without stressing the stipulation, essential to them, that women must remain women and men must remain men. But what are they talking about when they talk about nature? Similarly, when a ‘man’ takes responsibility for a tiny share of the housework, people talk about it and herald it as progress in the equality of the sexes and women’s liberation. These acts of liberation make me laugh so hard that my chest quivers like a drumskin danced on by a centipede. Liberation, whether gender or sexual, cannot under any circumstances be a more equitable redistribution of violence, nor a more pop acceptance of oppression. Liberty is a tunnel that must be dug by hand. Freedom is a way out. Liberty – like the new name by which you now call me, or the vaguely hirsute face you see before you – is something that is carefully fabricated and exercised.
Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak?, pg. 28-29
