X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Ftweet_pad.txt;h=663b8174993a7aa37d4eecc76c005582ca4fe091;hb=98b0918d154f0a97edbaf040a1aadf216d165124;hp=c0290271c7c8b200353b940f164afc65b873c19a;hpb=f72f426982ef52f2b1c45397b59f4202f59965dd;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/tweet_pad.txt b/notes/tweet_pad.txt index c029027..663b817 100644 --- a/notes/tweet_pad.txt +++ b/notes/tweet_pad.txt @@ -1,11 +1,45 @@ +.@LessWrong has the brains, @Quillette has the courage, social justice has the heart. What heroine or hero among us can unite these three virtues and shepherd us home to a Nice Place to Live?? + +Shared mass-blocklists might help here? Although that does, unfortunately, put the onus of the trivial inconvenience [TODO linky] on the reader. Not sure what else to suggest (in the face of disagreements on what Tweets constitute "harm"), sorry. [cold sweat] + +Less-harsh rephrasing: passing (and especially passing-for-cis) has a large effect on social outcomes for "deep" structural reasons; more anti-transphobia political activism won't solve this problem (but, e.g., cheaper facial feminization surgery might!) + +There's a sense in which cis is the default—cis (non-trans) bodies are what you get in the absence of exogenous hormone replacement therapy. (There were some permanent effects after my 5-month 2017 HRT experiment, so I'm "less" cis than I would otherwise be in a way??) + +Trans people are a sufficiently small minority that I wouldn't be surprised if medical science doesn't yet know what things are due to developmental sex and what to current hormone levels—it would be great to see more research on this! [female scientist emoji] + +---- + +I guess I'm not sure what the truth condition is for being nonbinary? ("NBs are people who say they're NB" seems too much like circular reasoning.) I could start to become a trans woman by getting back on HRT, but I'm not sure what the process is for being NB [include hormones photo] + +I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5 + +like, compared to the ENTIRE REST OF SPACETIME, I'm yet another nice smart progressive Jewish trans girl, just like everyone else 2/5 + +It's ONLY in comparison to Berkeley 2019 that I might be easily confused with some kind of vicious right-wing edgelord (the likes of which I actually am not) 3/5 + +Can I be forgiven if, from my perspective, it looks like the problem is with Berkeley 2019 rather than me? 4/5 + +where this "Everything is socially constructed! Nothing correlates with anything else!" performance is the price of being Good, I'm willing to be Bad if that means I can say that SOME things aren't socially constructed, and use language to refer to correlations less than one 5/5 + +Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰) + You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler! Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you?? Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.") +"Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle + +Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is an allegory about how a single dissenter's courage can shatter preference-falsification equilibria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6O785wx8c + link to Tail: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1089172233300443136 +too emotionally exhausted: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1112408859639898113 + +is this canon??? https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1107153227257204737 + no one remembers pronouns: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1060563648027021314 Striesand effect: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1092768815623094274 @@ -16,12 +50,20 @@ Singal for free speech: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/10892361427241369 real eugenics: https://twitter.com/AMK2934/status/1091571957378633728 +this but unironically (see Blanchard on "developmental competition") https://twitter.com/LoFiRepublican/status/1135632521029402626 + https://twitter.com/BennettJonah/status/1089421675433771008 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S8E23 "Sounds of Silence" is an allegory about political correctness: "I could stay and live with them, or I could keep my voice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhqxvgQYn0 #mylittlepony #friendshipismagic #idw Twilight Sparkle has TERF bangs +this'll be great for my future tantrum: https://twitter.com/CrassyTheo/status/1106724053371387904 + +AGP is well-described: https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1121428353074880513 + +dialogue with Grey: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1138257464795602944 + ----- Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year—