From 690935eb1164046877b499ad4bb39ffc61c13fee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:21:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] cache a Tweet thread for August --- notes/tweet_pad.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/notes/tweet_pad.txt b/notes/tweet_pad.txt index a724488..78fa593 100644 --- a/notes/tweet_pad.txt +++ b/notes/tweet_pad.txt @@ -5,3 +5,22 @@ Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.") https://twitter.com/literallyktp/status/1075287925087264768 + + +----- + +Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year— + +As a male with mild gender dysphoria (which is probably causally related to my autogynephilic sexuality), pronoun stickers (like those at @RustConf) make me uncomfortable for nuanced reasons that are hard to adequately explain when limited to 280 characters at a time! 1/7 + +Like, I don't want to put on the "HE" sticker, because that would be taken to mean that I actively "identify" with the unfortunate fact of my being male, when really it's more that I don't expect people to pretend not to notice, given how I look. 2/7 + +(I was on hormone replacement therapy for 5 months the other year, but quit out of general conservatism about medical interventions. I wrote about it on my secret gender blog! http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/) 3/7 + +Likewise, I can't put on the "SHE" sticker. I do prefer the æsthetics of feminine pronouns and cherish them in contexts where that makes sense (like when cosplaying a female character), but I couldn't really expect people to take that seriously in real life, given how I look. 4/7 + +I guess I could use the "THEY" sticker?? But I'm still not sure what the truth condition is for having a nonbinary gender (in contrast to my biological sex, which is pretty unambiguous from multiple lines of evidence). 5/7 + +I guess I'm unnerved by the implication that the subconscious process by which the brain notices people's secondary sex characteristics is somehow illegitimate? I'm happy to use the indicated pronouns, but am I also supposed to override my perception of physical reality? 6/7 + +Although the pronoun stickers may be a useful stopgap while we're waiting for deep-learning powered surgery robots (written in @rustlang?!) to make facial-feminization surgery affordable for everyone! END/7 -- 2.17.1