X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsocial-strategy-notes-february-2019.md;h=58b343ab5bffb6aa7d24ae24f6ff69c69d94a648;hp=4670618a862f78d78f34b3ee2b8c2915e2ddae0e;hb=3626f64cd0fbfa57b0b185aed2d32203adbb8649;hpb=ff2adb332d3e88540ced427aeaf7d2b6878019f9 diff --git a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md index 4670618..58b343a 100644 --- a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md +++ b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Social Strategy Notes, February 2019 +Title: Social Strategy Notes, March 2019 Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: personal, software industry @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this) B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith -summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations +summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about non-public conversations part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter @@ -110,3 +110,25 @@ at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been prematur "Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post) + +"We're not actually doing the bad reasoning you're accusing us of" dodge is not credible; we had a whole goddamned sequence on this + +https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/ + +pulling my punches somewhat "Why can't we define 'woman' that way?" I was trying to be conciliatory with, "You can, but sometimes I want to use the word in other ways", but maybe that just got read as a sign of weakness; a more aggressive stance would have been "Because [37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong], that's fucking why" + +https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/ + +"Beatrice"'s disavowal + +embarrassing myself + +rationalists are _really good_ at free speech norms + +progressive virtue signaling—but when I say it, it's not just a sneer; it's a + +https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1084628483748184064 + +test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/ + +https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php