Title: Interlude XIV
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: other
-Tags: cathartic, interlude
+Tags: cathartic, interlude, stickers
Status: draft
-"Can you believe people are calling my blog transphobic?! _Me!_ That's like calling Christina Hoff Sommers an anti-feminist!"
+"But surely a man such as yourself—"
-"Um ... you know, that's _actually_ a pretty good analogy. People like Sommers who _agree_ with a one-sentence literal summary of feminism's goals, like 'women and men should have equal rights', but _disagree_ with seemingly every _other_ belief and instrumental strategy connotationally associated with feminism, and who spend a disproportionate amount of time criticizing central examples of feminists, might reasonably be perceived as anti-feminist, even if they're not literally trying to repeal the 19th Amendment. It's possible to meet the category membership criteria of some simple candidate verbal definition, while not actually being part of that cluster in configuration space along most of the dimensions that people care about and want to use the word to refer to."
+"I'm _nonbinary_," interjected the other, holding up a name badge bearing a _THEY/THEM/THEIRS_ sticker.
-"Huh. That argument sounds ... familiar."
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-"Does it."
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-"Right, so, I'm pro-trans in the same sense that autogynephilic trans women are women."
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-"_No!_ I mean, _not helping your case!_"
+"Right, sorry," said Mark. "Surely a nonbinary man such as yourself—"
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