From 0b45a2bd5e8cf5c0f4d852f4d17ff8becc99edda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:46:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] outline support for "The View From Nowhere" If I can so easily dash out bullet points describing what material I want to cover, converting the bullet points into paragraphs of actual prose shouldn't be so hard, right? Right? --- content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md index d6bdb38..d34dbcd 100644 --- a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md +++ b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md @@ -17,4 +17,19 @@ Are women and men mostly similar, or mostly different? what counts as "similar" vs. "different" isn't scientifically interesting: the data speaks for itself; how you want to summarize the data to stupid humans who can't hold multivariate probability distributions in their head is a matter of politics -[make sure to explain how this is different from "Categories Were Made" sophistry] +OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— + + * most disagreements are fake because people are squabbling over framing and + culture and "ought" rather than difference in the same world that we all + inhabit + * specific example: are trans women women? + * specific example: are men and women mostly different, or mostly the same? + * framing disputes aren't _completely_ trivially reducible, because some + categories are genuinely more natural than others + * I'm not "above" normal human discourse—I have my preferences, which I'll + fight for despite being idiosyncratic to me, and my views on which + categories are natrual which I currently think are transpersonal, but + _insofar as I can_, I want this blog to focus on describing the map, seeking + the view from nowhere. + * It helps to be _explicit_ about when you're being normative, and when you + think you're describing the territory. -- 2.17.1