One is reminded of Gertrude, dear Gertrude, and the manner in which that language pulls your socks off then smashes your toes. Tender Buttons subverts, re-reorganizes written language that consciously revitalizes the text and forces an active social re-definition of its function-end. The reader moves from passive vessel to active participant in studying the invalidity of the lame, traditionalist binaries of signifier/signified, denotative/connotative, masculine/feminine, reader/author.
