In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler discusses the complications related to constructions of the body's inner and outer worlds. She argues that “gender internalization,” as common linguistics describes it, is part of the hegemonic heterosexual binary of gender conformity that distinguishes the inner and outer worlds. Gender, in the commonly accepted model, is innate and is expressed through a process of highlighting inner gender. Butler instead proposes that “the gendered body is performative” and “has no ontological status apart from the various acts that constitute its reality” (173). Thus, gender does not exist within a person, a part of the body itself, but is a performance constructed through many manifestations. Gender is not explicitly linked to identity because it is not internal but rather corporeal. Butler says that drag "reveals the distinctness of aspects of gender experience that are falsely naturalized as a unity through the regulative fiction of heterosexual coherence." By imitating gender, drag implicitly reveals the imitative structure of gender itself – a...