Context: The end of Doom 2 had the final boss, the Icon of Sin, speak a message. It turned out to be a voice, in reverse, stating "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero." Hidden behind a fake wall, the Icon of Sin's hitbox turns out to actually be a sprite of John Romero's face.
To me, Judith Butler is kind of the same idea in terms of academic feminism