From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:23:35 +0000 (-0800) Subject: simulacra footnote for "Fully Consensual Gender" X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=482d5b8d2de23e0add731d27df0c0c31b45a199f;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git simulacra footnote for "Fully Consensual Gender" --- diff --git a/content/2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md b/content/2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md index 24d6502..b9131e2 100644 --- a/content/2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md +++ b/content/2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ Maybe the hypothetical doesn't have to be that extreme. Perhaps we should imagin Economists have a name for this kind of situation. [Gresham's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law): bad money drives out good. In contexts where custom requires that defaced Canadian dollars be regarded as equivalent to U.S. dollars, maybe everyone will smile and pretend not to notice the difference. -_They will be lying_. In marketplaces governed by "trans American dollars _are_ American dollars" social norms, smart buyers will prefer to buy with defaced Canadian dollars, and smart sellers will try to find plausibly-deniable excuses to not accept them ("That'll be $5." "Here you go! A completely normal, definitely non-suspicious American $5 bill!" "_Ooh_, you know what, actually we _just_ sold out"), because everyone knows that when it comes time to interact with the larger banking system, the two types of dollars won't be regarded as being of equal value. Never doubting the value of other people's currency may be basic human decency, but if so, the market [interprets basic human decency as damage and routes around it](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore). +_They will be lying_. In marketplaces governed by "trans American dollars _are_ American dollars" social norms, smart buyers will prefer to buy with defaced Canadian dollars, and smart sellers will try to find plausibly-deniable excuses to not accept them ("That'll be $5." "Here you go! A completely normal, definitely non-suspicious American $5 bill!" "_Ooh_, you know what, actually we _just_ sold out"), because everyone knows[ref]Except [not everyone knows](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/everybody-knows/). What actually happens is that the original "U.S. dollar" concept [coexists with the debased one](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/), and savvy people who understand what's going on can arbitrage the equivocation to [expropriate from those who are less savvy](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/).[/ref] + +that when it comes time to interact with the larger banking system, the two types of dollars won't be regarded as being of equal value. Never doubting the value of other people's currency may be basic human decency, but if so, the market [interprets basic human decency as damage and routes around it](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore). Similarly, there seem to be increasingly large subsets of Society in which it's _incredibly rude_ to question someone's stated gender. But even if everyone _says_ "Trans women are women" and uses the right pronouns solely on the basis of self-reported self-identity with no questions asked and no one batting an eye, it's not clear that this constitutes successfully entering a "fully consensual gender" regime insofar as people following their own self-interest are likely to systematically make _decisions_ that treat non-well-passing trans women as if they were something more like men, even if no one would dream of being so rude as to _admit out loud_ that that's what they're doing.