X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fnotes.txt;h=bf465e4357b7e1a635a5774be608e0577a873302;hb=399388880c02bde53c694ebe47fbc3b55e398a2d;hp=504fa828f6b42b73b2907174a58906e648d945ea;hpb=d7afca120f2d1021110e30f073e62e56803b4930;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 504fa82..bf465e4 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1870,3 +1870,72 @@ https://mustreadalaska.com/fairbanks-espresso-doubles-down-calls-its-pro-trump-c https://thevelvetchronicle.com/anonymous-letter-from-a-terrified-lesbian-thoughtcrime/ https://thevelvetchronicle.com/why-is-nobody-talking-about-cognitive-brain-development-in-the-rush-to-transition-kids/ + +"Defund the police" follows the logic of "give less money to orgs that do bad things", but they wouldn't say "Defund CPS" +https://twitter.com/CharlesFLehman/status/1269964759606210560 + +https://www.quantamagazine.org/males-are-the-taller-sex-estrogen-not-fights-for-mates-may-be-why-20200608/ + +"Black" but "white": https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1272984924686110720 + +https://medium.com/@kittyit/on-hurting-trans-women-a4a0ef1ef8d4 +https://medium.com/@kittyit/re-twitter-terms-of-service-c681356d0809 + +https://twitter.com/sgrif/status/1273090735122927616 + +https://medium.com/@dave_45588/response-to-andrew-carter-re-j-k-rowling-pt-2-556d9b9113b1 + +23 June 2020: people are STILL citing "Categories Were Made", TWICE when people on the subreddit asked "What is Slate Star Codex"? +https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hef5es/hi_what_was_slate_star_codex/fvqv9av/ +https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hef5es/hi_what_was_slate_star_codex/fvr47v1/ +> But the blog wasn't always on that 'side', either. Scott wrote one of the best analyses/defenses of trans identity and nonbiological definition of gender that I've ever read, and which ultimately convinced me. +Yet again someone citing "Categories Were Made" as influential: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/he96rm/star_slate_codex_deleted_because_of_nyt_article/fvr7h7w/ + +Even the enemies respect that post! +https://twitter.com/KirinDave/status/1275647936194654208 +> And finally, I strongly disagree that one good article about accepting trans-ness means you get to walk away from writing that is somewhat white supremacist and quite fascist without at least awknowledging you were wrong. + +And using it for defense. +https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1275524303430262790 +> "Who cares about a blog for male nerd know-it-alls?" +> The two demographics most over-represented in the SlateStarCodex readership according to the surveys are transgender people and Ph.D. holders. + +Two mentions in https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hhy2yc/what_would_you_put_in_the_essential_ssc_collection/ + +Another "Made for Man" cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hhtwxi/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_29_2020/fwwxycr/ + +More damage control: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hpohy5/what_are_some_of_scotts_posts_that_challenge_the/fxsu8p0/ + +"Sex Does Not Mean Gender. Equating Them Erases Trans Lives." https://archive.is/Mmlmi + +smart-fascist on trans programmers: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hhtwxi/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_29_2020/fwf86ju/ + +white people were violent back then: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hhtwxi/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_29_2020/fwfyif9/ + +https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d + +https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/fashion/where-have-all-the-tomboys-gone.html + +Smart people are sex erasure rather than sex denial, but erasure is a lot like denial when the phenomenon is decision-relevant ("we don't have a gender gap, just an assigned sex at birth gap"). (Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism) + +----- + +Drafted this for Duncan's wall, but I have serious writing to do; it's not worth my time to get into— + +I think I would be a LOT more likely to transition in a world where trans-people-as-a-collective-interest-group weren't such totalitarians hell-bent on Orwellian mind control. (In our world, I ended up quitting HRT after five months, and I never expected to stay on it indefinitely: http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/ ) + +Humans can't literally change sex given current technology (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions)! You can't control how people perceive you! If wanting to be able to reason about the predictively-useful natural category of biological sex using simple language (http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) constitutes a lack of "basic fucking respect", well, gee, I guess I don't respect you, you Stalinist motherfuckers! + +(I think that slips under Duncan's rule of "no attacks directly at specific people", because "you Stalinist motherfuckers" isn't specific.) + +The one time I posted in /r/GenderCritical, I got a reply that said, "You are a predator." That was pretty hurtful and unjustified—I spent a lot of Christmas Day 2016 crying as a result. But ... that's obviously MY problem. I chose to post something in someone else's community, and my feelings were hurt by the reply. That's not warrant to destroy someone else's community! (Yes, I understand that Reddit is a private company and the 1st Amendment doesn't apply, but Reddit still has a lot of quasi-monopoly power due to network effects, and that power has consequences.) + +---- + +"My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It" https://archive.is/FJNII +note, "My Son Wears Dresses", and not, "My Daughter Is Trans" + +https://medium.com/@mary.leng/harry-potter-and-the-reverse-voltaire-4c7f3a07241 + +https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisbelieve/2020/07/07/j-k-rowling-and-the-measuring-of-a-woman/ +> I've noticed that authoritarian people love to define manhood and womanhood: to lay down the law about who qualifies for each particular label.