X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fcodes-of-conflict-or-smile-more.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Fcodes-of-conflict-or-smile-more.md;h=506a29e973a019b28c264fca258bb05a5db5668a;hb=10ae243cb02e4f75fe9fca30d05c00d85da1fe6c;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=ed897467820ccbdf291bffea30401cd002d60553;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/codes-of-conflict-or-smile-more.md b/content/drafts/codes-of-conflict-or-smile-more.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..506a29e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/codes-of-conflict-or-smile-more.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Title: Codes of Conflict; Or, Smile More (working title) +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: discourse, software industry, anecdotal +Status: draft + +> _This is where the party ends +> I can't stand here listening to you +> And your racist friend +> I know politics bore you +> But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you +> And your racist friend_ +> +> _Out from the kitchen to the bedroom to the hallway +> Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way +> He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking +> Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding_ +> +> —["Your Racist Friend"](https://genius.com/4498157) by They Might Be Giants + + +It is humbling to contemplate the possibility that the only reason I haven't suffered any consequences for my writing is simply because I'm _not important enough_ to be a target—in either direction. (That is: no one hates this blog enough to bother reversing the pseudonym and making trouble for me in real life, and, conversely, my open-source and professional work isn't notable enough for anyone to bother digging to see if I have a secret gender-heresy blog.) + + +Curtis Yarvin +Rod Vagg linked to Quillette +Opal guy said trans people are delusional + +I did a good job of—how do you say?—hiding my power level. + +"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door" +think I'm an asshole and are showing me the door https://xkcd.com/1357/ + +the Uber driver who picked me up from the airport was named Omar and was from Mexico + +he did not know any nonbinary people + +"peering through reverent fingers" +"but the situation is fraught" + +My Little Pony convention was more ideologically tolerant + +https://meteuphoric.com/2017/08/30/what-you-cant-say-to-a-sympathetic-ear/ + +"There are views we have decided are unacceptable and we will ostracize you for having them." https://twitter.com/seldo/status/714272018976284672 + +find the contributor covenant PR where someone wanted to carve out a personal Twitter exemption, and the counterargument mentioned naming the project in the profile + +https://where.coraline.codes/blog/oscon/ + +Jerrica independently idenfitied it as a microaggression + +https://www.nateliason.com/blog/social-disobedience + +singular they for named individuals with an Anglosphere name or a beard in their profile photo + +I interrupted a woman, trying to finish her sentence + +heritability of politics actually makes sense: the moral foundations are the "true" trait, but in a particular country, that could predictably mean being a democrat + +https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/landscapes/ + +"Politics of Process Defense" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8120 + +https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-are-shifting-the-rest-of-their-identity-to-match-their-politics/ + +Damore lawsuit also quotes an instance of "40-something white men" (p. 43) + +https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788 + +/2017/Aug/interlude-vii/ + +https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1041668315947708416 +http://archive.is/oqDta + +[the taxi man]