Perhaps trouble
need not carry such a negative valence. To make trouble was, within the
reigning discourse of my childhood, something one should never do
precisely because that would get one in trouble. The rebellion and its
reprimand seemed to be caught up in the same terms, a phenomenon that
gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power:
The prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in
trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that
trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way
to be in it.
-- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity (1990).