norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it,
&c. "Infovism" rather than activism.
-work in my "the arc of the moral universe bends towards maximum entropy" quip!
+work in my "the arc of the moral universe bends towards maximum entropy" quip: https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154841793275199
+
great troll: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/23/148
https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/
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+https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/bbc-to-identify-haters-within-lgbt-allies/
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+Title: Laser 9
+Date: 2018-10-15 05:00
+Category: other
+Tags: not-a-transition, lasers
+Status: draft
+
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_(A anecdote of no consequence)_
-This year at the conference for this open-source scene I've been really into lately, there were pronoun stickers in everyone's conference swag bags ("[...] so we can all help each other get things right. Wear them in solidarity with others too. Help us make [the conference] welcoming and inclusive for all"), including _they/them/theirs_, _ze/zir/zirs_ (!), and blanks (!!). Leaving aside [philosophical objections](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/#anchor-pronoun-sticker-discourse) for a moment, I want you to consider [the mild stress this kind of thing can inflict](https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college) on people who have [_some_ form](https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/05/using-gender-neutral-pronouns-could-actually-misgender-people.html) of gender-related problems but who have chosen [some form of mitigations](/2017/Jan/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan/) other than transitioning.
+This year at a conference for this open-source scene I've been really into lately, there were pronoun stickers in everyone's conference swag bags ("[...] so we can all help each other get things right. Wear them in solidarity with others too. Help us make [the conference] welcoming and inclusive for all"), including _they/them/theirs_, _ze/zir/zirs_ (!), and blanks (!!). Leaving aside [philosophical objections](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/#anchor-pronoun-sticker-discourse) for a moment, I want you to consider [the mild stress this kind of thing can inflict](https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college) on people who have [_some_ form](https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/05/using-gender-neutral-pronouns-could-actually-misgender-people.html) of gender-related problems but who have [chosen](/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/) some form of [mitigation](/2017/Jan/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan/) other than transitioning.
<a href="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg"><img src="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg" width="300" style="float: right; margin: 0.8pc;"></a>
But none of this really matters: if you don't want to wear a sticker, you can just not wear one, with no discernible social consequences. (At least, not this year!)
-I did get asked for my pronouns once, the first day, by someone who I think was not yet aware of the stickers—the only time I've been asked for pronouns when I wasn't at an explicitly social-justice-oriented event (like at the local [genderqueer support group](/2017/Jan/title-sequence/), or "Introduction to Feminisms" class at the University ten years ago) or literally wearing a dress (in the cosplay repair lounge at Comic-Con).
+I did get asked for my pronouns once, the first day, by someone who I think was not yet aware of the stickers—the only time I've been asked for pronouns when I wasn't at an explicitly social-justice-oriented event (like at the local [genderqueer support group](/2017/Jan/title-sequence/), or "Introduction to Feminisms" class at the University in Santa Cruz ten years ago) or literally wearing a dress (in the cosplay repair lounge at Comic-Con).
-I got in a conversation with this person after I sat at their table to listen to them eloquently denounce some horribly overcomplicated code they had encountered—which made sense, they explained, because the 40-year-old men who wrote those libraries were all Trump supporters and Nazis and libertarians.
+This was after I got in a conversation after I sat at this person's table to listen to them eloquently denounce at length the many ways in which some code they encountered was horribly overcomplicated—which made sense, they explained, because the 40-year-old men who wrote those libraries were all Trump supporters and Nazis and libertarians.
-("That's interesting!", I said, "Do you suppose there's much of a correlation between political ideology and code quality? With a sufficiently smart linter to operationalize quality, this could be amenable to empirical study ...")
+("Oh, that's interesting!", I said, "Do you suppose there's that large of a correlation between political ideology and code quality? With a sufficiently smart linter to operationalize quality, this could be amenable to empirical study ...")
-[...]
+The question came as we introduced ourselves mid-conversation. After I gave my name (as "Mark"), they said, "What are your pronouns?"
I think I handled it reasonably well?—hemming and stalling for a few seconds before giving _he_, with a disclaimer that the reason I hesitated was because I don't want to imply that I _identify_ with masculinity—it's complicated. The questioner, sensing my discomfort, made an effort to placate or reassure me: "Sure," the person said, nodding, "That's just what you're using right now; that's cool."
-[in a way, it was a compliment—I wouldn't have been asked that if I had a beard]
+It was a compliment, really. I don't think they would have asked if I had had a beard. There's _no chance_
+
+
same-sex couples do less assortative mating! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843104/
+
On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
Genocide is murder of a class of people. Can you be more specific about the class of people you see being murdered (nerdy men?) and what you think is murdering them (the political-correctness memeplex that evolved as a social-control mechanism to prevent the United States from becoming Yugoslavia)?
reading the famous Flight 93 essay and coming across a scare-quoted "cis-genderism", I want to say, "You mean _cisnormativity_"
+my insufficiently-requited love retweeted this: https://twitter.com/EscapologistFi/status/1052650770624118785
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+http://www.jbhe.com/features/53_SAT.html
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+Singal on pediatrics society statement: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1052939041069588480 (follow-up for critique of Ozy on ROGD!!!)
+
+Request for social technology: again, we really need to do something about the problem where civil-and-charitable discourse culture tends to degenerate into "I accept a belief from you, if you accept a belief from me" social exchange, which rewards dogmatic incumbents. (Submissive people trying to be charitable think, "The incumbent didn't respond to my argument! Maybe I'm wrong!" when maybe they should be less submissive and instead think, "The incumbent is being willfully stupid! No update!") So, we know that personal character attacks are bad and need to be quashed. But maybe "arrogance and contempt towards worldviews which I claim have bugs in addition to their already well-known features" is OK? We know that argument NEVER gets bullet. We know that argument NEVER gets personal attack. But a lot of people seem to think that if argument doesn't get counterargument, that means that argument wins. And that's not right! Maybe sometimes argument deserves, "No update, no time to explain; I falsifiably predict that you'll thank me later." Sometimes this prediction will be wrong! But sometimes it will come true eight years later!
+
+("And he cried out, one last cry under the consciousness of Odeen, except that somehow it was the cry of Dua. 'No, we can't stop the market. We are the market. We—'")
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-_ Sticker Discourse (working title)
-_ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More (working title)
+✓ Interlude XIV (nonbinary man)
+✓ Interlude XV (Christina Hoff Sommers)
+_ Interlude XVI (egg promises)
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+_ Laser 9
+_ Sticker Prices
+_ Codes of Convergence (working title)
_ Norms of Reaction (working title)
_ The View From Nowhere
_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
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_ reply to Ozy on https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science/ (when marketing in Culture War thread, maybe hat tip https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9cir3w/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_03/e5c1h2c/ )
_ Friendship Practices of ...
_ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
-_ Korrasami and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
_ 5150
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-minor—
-✓ Christina Hoff Sommers
-✓ eggs don't deserve love
+_ Korrasami and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
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