From e3503d8d8d48d305e543899663658ae30b62eb69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 21:03:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "Point Man": important to flash my creds --- content/drafts/point-man.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/point-man.md b/content/drafts/point-man.md index 0554fb6..fb5e9bf 100644 --- a/content/drafts/point-man.md +++ b/content/drafts/point-man.md @@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ Again, [no individual mastermind is required](/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terr As a transhumanist, I believe that fantasies deserve to be fulfilled—but _actually_ fulfilled, fulfilled _for real_, not humored by everyone forcing everyone else to pretend in order to maintain the equilibrium in some idiot political game. -I'm glad that sex reassignment exists for those who need it, or just _want_ it. But this new culture in which any attempt to talk about sex in the common language gets adversarially reinterpreted as a claim about some "gender" thing that has no particular truth conditions other than the individual's say-so, [_isn't helping those people_](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/oppressive-rituals-of-ceremoniously-announcing-one-gender-pronouns/). Relative to more honest alternatives that could be invented or rediscovered, I very much doubt it's helping those who enthusiastically advocate for and participate in it—if they only _knew_ in detail what they were selling and being sold. Selfishly, I resent the forced updates to my native language, which I still need to make sense of the world I see. +I'm glad that sex reassignment exists for those who need it, or just _want_ it. (I would want it if the technology were better.) But this new culture in which any attempt to talk about sex in the common language gets adversarially reinterpreted as a claim about this mysterious "gender" thing that has no particular truth conditions other than the individual's say-so, [_isn't helping those people_](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/oppressive-rituals-of-ceremoniously-announcing-one-gender-pronouns/). Relative to more honest alternatives that could be invented or rediscovered, I very much doubt it's helping those who enthusiastically advocate for and participate in it—if they only _knew_ in detail what they were selling and being sold. Selfishly, I resent the forced updates to my native language, which I still need to make sense of the world I see. And, and—that poor deer! -- 2.17.1