X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2018%2Fblegg-mode.md;h=a043874accecc8c6c36e8d35d2ff3403aab25fd0;hp=383a680dc1f959cef87206ce7d06c50140489123;hb=21731ba6f1191f1e8f920c44299c4b345f4fa528;hpb=f1129284da0a1943d1f2809292ea2f832b0d03f3 diff --git a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md index 383a680..a043874 100644 --- a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md +++ b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You make a startling discovery—this object was originally a smooth, hard red c "Wow," she says, "someone sure has gone to a lot of trouble to make these rubes look like bleggs!" -"Hold on," you say, "I'm not sure we should be disrespecting that effort by calling them _rubes_. [The categories were made for man, not man for the categories](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/): there's no rule of sorting saying that we should call them rubes, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that we should call them bleggs. And at a glance, they _look_ like bleggs—I mean, like the more-typical bleggs." +"Hold on," you say, "I'm not sure we should be disrespecting that effort by calling them _rubes_. [The categories were made for man, not man for the categories](http://web.archive.org/web/20200610230130/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/): there's no rule of sorting saying that we should call them rubes, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that we should call them bleggs. And at a glance, they _look_ like bleggs—I mean, like the more-typical bleggs." Susan rolls her eyes at you, but apparently doesn't care enough to argue about it, so the two of you agree to call the modified hard objects _adapted bleggs_ and get back to work.