From 363df416fdf7fe960698390bc67b4ed6f362e10e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:41:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/not-all-men.md | 5 +++++ notes/notes.txt | 4 ++++ notes/tech_tasks.txt | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/drafts/not-all-men.md diff --git a/content/drafts/not-all-men.md b/content/drafts/not-all-men.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3a73c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/not-all-men.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Title: Not All Men? +Date: 2021-03-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: epistemology +Status: draft diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index aded611..596f1f8 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2405,3 +2405,7 @@ https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/20/little-is-known-abou https://gen.medium.com/the-sports-arena-has-become-conservatives-favorite-anti-trans-battleground-8cc3adc533cf https://wepon.tumblr.com/post/620926931352862720/my-current-top-10-favorite-posts-on-slate-star + +I've frequently argued against the social practice of people being expected to declare (in their social media profile, or on badges at conferences) what third-person pronouns others should use to refer to oneself. The end goal of transitioning—one would think—is to be organically perceived as the sex other than one's [developmental sex](/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/). + +What pronoun other people _naturally_ use to refer to you when they're _not_ trying to be polite, but just trying to _talk about the world they see_ in the language that comes naturally to them, is a test of whether your transition is actually _succeeding_ at the goal of changing your (perceived) sex. diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt index f9fac44..2347da6 100644 --- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt +++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -rescure Sophia's comment on the "Wells for Boys" linkpost +https://github.com/pelican-plugins/linkbacks/ /count firing on individual post pages (suboptimal) rework footnotes plugin!? (Markdown footnote format is better than [ref][/ref] tags) self-host a copy of Source Sans Pro (I'm annoyed that my devserver preview fonts are ugly when I've killed my network connection so I can focus for once) -- 2.17.1